Class Syllabus

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Week One
Tuesday, September 4:
  Introductions
Thursday, September 6:
  Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Chapter One: Conquerors and Victims: The Image of America Forms (1500-1800); pp. 3-26
Chapter Two: The Spanish Borderlands and the Making of an Empire (1810-1898); pp. 27-57
  Historical Text:
James Monroe, Message to Congress, December 2, 1823 (a.k.a. "The Monroe Doctrine") In Richard Hofstadter, ed., Great Issues in American History: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865; pp. 244-47
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Week Two
Tuesday, September 11
  Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Chapter Two: The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; pp.39-94 Claudio Lomnitz-Adler, Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in the Mexican National Space
Chapter Sixteen: Racial Ideology and Forms of Nationalism; pp. 261-81
Thursday, September 13:
  Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Chapter Five: Honor and Social Status; pp.176-206
Chapter Six: Honor and Virtue; pp. 207-26
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Week Three
Tuesday, September 18:
  Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America Preface; pp. v-x
Chapter One: The "Iron Cage" in the New Nation; pp. 1-15
Chapter Three: Within the "Bowels" of the Republic; pp. 36-65
Chapter Four: Beyond Primitive Accumulation; pp. 69-79
Chapter Five: The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Red Race on Our Borders"; pp. 80-107
Chapter Six: The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Black Race Within Our Bosom"; pp. 108-44
Thursday, September 20:
  Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Chapter Seven: An American Prospero in King Arthur's Court; pp. 147-70
Chapter Ten: The "Heather Chinee" and American Technology; pp. 215-49 W1600: Latino History
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Week Four
Tuesday, September 25:
 

Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
Chapter Eleven: Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans; pp. 208-28
Chapter Twelve: Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War; pp. 229-48 Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos; 4th Edition ONLY
Chapter Two: Legacy of Hate: The Conquest of Mexico's Northwest; pp. 41-56 Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict
Chapter Five: Citizenship and Property rights: U.S. Interpretations of the Treaty; pp. 62-86

Historical Texts:
* Appendix One: The Original Text of Articles IX and X of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the Protocol of Querétaro; pp. 179-82
* Appendix Two: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, as Ratified by the Uniuted States and Mexican Governments, 1848; pp. 183-99

Thursday, September 27:
 

David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Chapter Four: Race, Labor, and the Frontier; pp. 75-99

Historical Text:
Juan Cortina, "Proclamation of November 23, 1859" The "Robin Hood" of South Texas, in Wayne Moquin and Charles Van Doren, eds., A Documentary History of the Mexican Americans; pp. 272-76 Tomás Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California Excerpt from
Chapter One: "We Desire Only a White Population in California": The Transformation of Mexican California in Historical Sociological Perspective; pp. 26-41, ONLY
Chapter Two: "The True Significance of the Word 'White'"; pp. 45-74 W1600: Latino History

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Week Five
Tuesday, October 2:
  Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Chapter Twelve: The Empire and the People; pp. 290-313 Philip S. Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Volume One: 1895-1898 Introduction: pp. xv-xxiv Philip S. Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Volume Two: 1898-1902
Chapter Thirty: The Republic of Cuba; pp. 655-72 Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Chapter Three: Banana Republics and Bonds: Taming the Empire's Backyard (1898-1950); pp. 58-78
Thursday, October 4:
  Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
Chapter Twenty-One: The Strenuous Life Abroad: "Marked Severities" in the Philippines; pp. 307-32 Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Chapter Six: Children of Barbarism: Republican Imperatives and Imperial Wards; pp. 221-59 W1600: Latino History
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Week Six
Tuesday, October 9:
  Raymond Carr, Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment
Chapter One: From Spanish Colony to American Possession; pp. 17-47 Pedro A. Cabán, Constructing a Colonial People: Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932
Chapter Four: The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900-1917; pp. 122-61
Chapter Six: A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy; pp. 198-234
Thursday, October 11:
  James L. Dietz, Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional Change and Capitalist Development
Chapter Two: The Early Period of U.S. Control, 1898-1930; pp. 79-134 W1600: Latino History
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Week Seven
Tuesday, October 16:
 

Mark T. Gilderhus, Diplomacy and Revolution: U.S.-Mexican Relations Under Wilson and Carranza
Chapter One: The Mexican Question: Wilson's Intervention; pp. 1-14
Chapter Three: The Punitive Expedition; pp. 32-52 David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Chapter Five: The Coming of the Commercial Farmers; pp. 106-28 Ricardo Romo, East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio
Chapter Five: The "Brown Scare"; pp. 89-111

Historical Texts:
* Ricardo Flores Magón, et al., To the Workers of the United States, November 7, 1914 Appendix A in Colin M. MacLachlan, Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magón in the United States; pp. 121-25
* Enrique Flores Magón, Address in Federal Court, Los Angeles, June 22, 1916 Appendix B in Colin M. MacLachlan, Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magón in the United States; pp. 126-33
Mark Reisler, Always the Laborer, Never the Citizen: Anglo Perceptions of the Mexican Immigrant during the 1920s
Chapter Two in David G. Gutiérrez, ed., Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States; pp. 23-43

Thursday, October 18:
Mid-Term Essay Exam Questions will be distributed at the end of class.
  Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodríguez, Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s Deportation: Adiós, Migra; pp. 49-71 Repatriation: El Regreso; pp. 97-125 W1600: Latino History
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Week Eight
Tuesday, October 23:
Mid-Term Study Period - class will not meet.
Thursday, October 25:
Mid-Term Essay Exams due at the beginning of class.
 

Raymond Carr, Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment
Chapter Two: Colonial Conflicts; pp. 47-71

Historical Text:
Pedro Albizu Campos, Speech Given Before the Associated Press, 1936 "Puerto Rican Nationalism," in Roberto Santiago, ed., Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology; pp. 27-29

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Week Nine
Tuesday, October 30:
  Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos; 4th Edition ONLY Sleepy Lagoon; pp. 268-71 Mutiny in the Streets of Los Angeles; pp. 271-73 Manuel García y Griego, The Importation of Mexican Contract Laborers to the United States, 1942-1964
Chapter Three in David G. Gutiérrez, ed., Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States; pp. 45-85 Virginia E, Sánchez Korrol, From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City
Chapter Two: Background of the Puerto Rican Migration to New York City; pp. 11-50
Chapter Three: Settlement Patterns and Community Development; pp. 51-84
Thursday, November 1:
  History Task Force, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Labor Migration Under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience
Chapter Five: Migration and Industrialization, 1930 to the Present; pp. 117-77 W1600: Latino History
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Week Ten
Tuesday, November 6:
Academic holiday - no classes.
Thursday, November 8:
  Francisco Rivera-Batiz and Carlos E. Santiago, Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s
Chapter Three: Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States; pp. 43-62
Chapter Seven: The Puerto Rican Population in the United States; pp. 126-51
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Week Eleven
Tuesday, November 13:
 

Eric R. Wolf, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Chapter Six: Cuba; pp. 249-73

Historical Text:
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Speech to the Organization of American States, at Punta del Este, Uruguay, August 8, 1961 "The Real Meaning of the Alliance for Progress," in David Deutschmann, ed., Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution: Writings and Speeches; pp.265-98 James Petras and Morris Morley, U.S. Hegemony Under Siege: Class, Politics, and Development in Latin America
Chapter Four: Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State: Permanent and Transitory Interests in U.S. Foreign Policy; pp. 111-43

Thursday, November 15:
Abstracts for final papers are due in class.
 

Liliana Cotto, The Rescate Movement: An Alternative Way of Doing Politics
Chapter Eight in Edwin Meléndez and Edgardo Meléndez, eds., Colonial Dilemma: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico; pp. 119-29

Historical Texts (Boricua):
* Pablo Guzman, The Party (from Palante! The Young Lords Party) In Roberto Santiago, ed., Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology; pp. 52-60
* Ronald Fernandez, Los Macheteros In Roberto Santiago, ed., Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology; pp.60-74 Juan Manuel Carrión, The National Question in Puerto Rico
Chapter Four in Edwin Meléndez and Edgardo Meléndez, eds., Colonial Dilemma: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Puerto Rico; pp. 67-75 J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Aztlán, Borinquen and Hispanic Nationalism in the United States In Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds., The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society; pp. 63-82

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Week Twelve
Tuesday, November 20:
 

Carlos Muñoz, Jr., Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement
Chapter Two: The Militant Challenge: The Chicano Generation; pp. 47-73
Chapter Three: The Rise of the Chicano Student Movement and Chicano Power; pp. 75-98 David G. Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity
Chapter Six: Sin Fronteras? The Contemporary Debate; pp. 179-205

Historical Texts (Chicano):
* El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, 1969 (Denver, CO) In Rudolfo A. Anaya and Francisco Lomelí, eds., Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland; pp. 1-5 * El Plan de Santa Barbara, 1969 (Santa Barbara, CA) Appendix in Carlos Muñoz, Jr., Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement; pp. 191-202 * Reies Lopez Tijerina, Letter from the Santa Fe Jail, August 17, 1969 In Wayne Moquin and Charles Van Doren, eds., A Documentary History of the Mexican Americans; pp. 484-87 Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels, Latno Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States
Chapter Three: "Establishing an Identity" in the Sixties: The Mexican-American/Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements; pp. 44-79

Thursday, November 22:
  So-called "Thanksgiving" holiday -- no classes.
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Week Thirteen
Tuesday, November 27:
  Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami
Chapter Five: Enter the Cubans; pp. 89-107 Silvia Pedraza, Cuba's Refugees: Manifold Migrations
Chapter Twenty in Silvia Pedraza and Rubén G. Rumbaut, eds., Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America; pp. 263-79 María de los Angeles Torres, Encuentros y Encontonazos: Homeland in the Politics and Identity of the Cuban Diaspora In Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds., The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society; pp. 43-62 Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami
Chapter Two: A Year to Remember: Mariel; pp. 18-37
Chapter Seven: A Repeat Performance? The Nicaraguan Exodus; pp. 150-75
Thursday, November 29:
  Nora Hamilton and Norma Stolz Chinchilla, Central American Migration: A Framework for Analysis
Chapter Four in Mary Romero et al., eds., Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.; pp. 81-100 Susan Coutin, Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency
Chapter Six: From Refugess to Immigrants; pp. 135-61 Robert D. Manning, Washington, D.C.: The Changing Social Landscape of the International Capital City
Chapter Twenty-Eight in Silvia Pedraza and Rubén G. Rumbaut, eds., Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America; pp. 373-89 Nestor P. Rodríguez, Undocumented Central Americans in Houston: Diverse Populations In International Migration Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1; pp. 4-26
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Week Fourteen
Tuesday, December 4:
  Jonathan Hartlyn, The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic
Chapter Two: Historical Pathways: Neopatrimonial Authoritarianism and International Vulnerability; pp. 23-59 Sherri Grasmuck and Patricia Pessar, Dominicans in the United States: First- and Second-Generation Settlement, 1960-1990
Chapter Twenty-One in Silvia Pedraza and Rubén G. Rumbaut, eds., Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America; pp. 280-92 Silvio Torres-Saillant, Visions of Dominicanness in the United States
Chapter Nine in Frank Bonilla et al., eds., Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence; pp. 139-52 Luis E. Guarnizo, Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational Society
Chapter Eight in Mary Romero et al., eds., Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.; pp. 161-74 Sherrie L. Baver, New York's Latinos and the 1986 Immigration Act: The IRCA Experience and Future Trends
Chapter Ten in Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Sherrie L. Baver, eds., Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition; pp. 302-27
Thursday, December 6 (last day of class):
  Conclusions
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Week Fifteen
Friday, December 14:
Final papers due by 5:00 pm, in Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race office.
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