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Mexican-American Studies
  

  • MAS 165 - Mexican American Culture, Community and Identity

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    An introduction to Mexican American and Chicana/o/x culture, community and identity since 1848 from interdisciplinary perspectives. Includes Mexican American-Chicana/o/x culture and history within the world systems of Native Americans, New Spain, Mexico and the United States.

    Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - SBS and C, G; Meets CTE - SBS and C, G.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Define within a historical context the vocabulary of Chicanismo: geographies, histories, myths, and oral traditions.
    2. Explain the origins of Chicanismo and Chicana/o/x /Raza Studies within the context of the Chicana/o/x Movement in the 1960s.
    3. Explain Chicana/o/x perspectives of knowledge based in the history and culture of greater Mexico within the realities of the United States.
    4. Describe the major issues, ideas, influences, thinkers, leaders, events, social movements, art, artists, writers, and demographics.
    5. Conduct community-based observation and participation.
    Outline:
    1. Defining Chicanismo
      1. Vocabulary of identities within a historical context
      2. History, homelands, origins and mythologies
      3. Eurocentric Narratives, Canon, and Chicana/o/x responses
      4. From Guadalupe Hidalgo to El Movimiento
      5. Chicana feminist critiques
    2. Chicano(a) Formation
      1. Barrios
        1. History of the barrios
        2. Family and work
        3. Practices, beliefs, and traditions
        4. Issues of segregated life
        5. Civil rights, mutualistas, and social organizations
        6. Urban super barrios:  Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, and Phoenix
        7. Suburbia and the rise of the middle class
        8. Rural colonias and las files
      2. Justice
        1. The development of institutional racism and vigilantism
        2. The legacies of Manifest Destiny and the Alamo
        3. From the Texas Rangers to the Migra
        4. Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
        5. Grassroots human rights organizations: the Crusade for Justice
      3. Education
        1. Mexican schools and Americanization projects
        2. Major education lawsuits
        3. Bilingual-Bicultural struggles
        4. Walks outs challenge K-12 education
        5. Plan de Santa Barbara challenges academia
        6. Demographics and education today
      4. Politics
        1. Politics of exclusion and control
        2. Impact of WWII and Korean veterans
        3. Electoral politics to the Great Society
        4. Rise of Mexican unions
        5. Rise of a broker class
        6. Crystal City and La Raza Unida
        7. Farm workers organize las files and environmental, food, and justice
        8. New Mexican land struggles: the Alianza
      5. The Border and El Oro Lado
        1. Immigration and border policies from 1924
        2. Bracero agreements and results
        3. Undocumented workers organize: Centro de Acción Social Autónoma-Hermandad General de Trabajadores (CASA)
        4. Militarization: Operation Gatekeeper, 9/11 and Homeland Security
        5. U.S.-Mexico relations since North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA)
        6. The Border Wall
    3. The Chicano Movement Today  
      1. Renascimiento
        1. Music from mariachi to Molotov
        2. Art from murals to performance
        3. Teatro
        4. Writers
        5. Poetry and the spoken word
        6. Cultural centers
        7. Dance
        8. Rasquachismo in the popular culture
      2. La Nueva Familia
        1. Guadalupe as militant feminist
        2. Lesbianas Y Los Gays
        3. Single working mothers
        4. Transborder families
        5. Catholicism and evangelistas
        6. Boy and girl gangs
        7. New spaces for the elders
      3. Nuevas Ondas
        1. Demographics
        2. Youth
        3. Media
        4. Business
          1. Middle class
          2. Film and television
          3. Internet
          4. Globalization
    4. America sin Fronteras:  Visions for the 21st Century
      1. Future directions
      2. Border alliances and groups
  

  • MAS 201 - La Chicana

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Interdisciplinary analysis of Chicanas/Mexicanas’ status in the United States. Includes Chicana/Mexicana scholarship and Social Justice Movements, and Chicana/Mexicana feminism in the Southwest, Chicana/Mexicana community empowerment, Chicanas/Mexicanas on the U.S.-Mexico border.

    Information: Same as GWS 201 .

    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Analyze the status and participation of Chicanas/Mexicanas in the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective.
    2. Describe the scholarship, Chicana/Mexicana feminisms, Women’s movements, Chicano movement, international transborder movements and the building of agency, empowerment, representation and social justice.
    3. Describe Chicana and Mexicana feminisms with emphasis on the Southwest, community empowerment and U.S.-Mexico border.
    Outline:
    1. Interdisciplinary analysis of Chicanas/Mexicanas in the United States         
      1. Chicanas/Mexicanas and dominant white culture
        1. Chicanas/Mexicanas and history
        2. Chicanas/Mexicanas in the Southwest
        3. Chicanas/Mexicanas and the U.S.-Mexico Border
      2. Chicanas/Mexicanas and social institutions  
        1. Family and marriage
        2. Education
        3. Politics
        4. Economy
        5. Health
        6. Religion
        7. Gender, Age, and Sexuality
      3. Current issues of Chicanas/Mexicanas in the U.S.
        1. Family and marriage
        2. Education
        3. Politics
        4. Economy
        5. Health
        6. Religion
        7. Gender, age, and sexuality
    2. Chicana/Mexicana Interdisciplinary Scholarship and  Social Justice Movements
      1. Chicanas/Mexicanas and the women’s movements in the U.S.
      2. Chicanas/Mexicanas and the  Chicano movement
      3. Chicanas/Mexicanas and International Transborder Movements and the building of agency, empowerment, representation and social justice
    3. Chicana/Mexicana Feminisms
      1. Chicanas/Mexicanas in the Southwest.
      2. Chicanas/Mexicanas and community empowerment.
      3. Chicanas/Mexicanas on the U.S.-Mexico border
  

  • MAS 219 - Mexican American Culture

    3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours
    3 lecture periods 0 lab periods

    Interdisciplinary survey of Mexicano/a/x/Chicana/o/x people from their indigenous origins in Meso-America and the Gran Chichimeca to the present in the United States. Includes historical writings, movements north under Spain and Mexico, repression and resistance. Also includes the political, economic, religious and social movements of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries.

    Prerequisite(s): WRT 101 , WRT 101HC , WRT 101S , or WRT 101SE  
    Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - SBS and I, C, G; Meets CTE - SBS and C, G.


    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Define some of the principal historiographic issues, perspectives and problems of Chicana/o/x studies and be able to name some of the major Chicana/o/x scholars.
    2. Delineate the chronology, and identify the main social, economic, political, cultural and intellectual patterns for each period of Chicana/o/x history.
    3. Discuss the emergence of the Mexican Americans in the 19th century in each of their homelands, Texas, California, New Mexico-Arizona, their resistance to U.S. aggression and the construction of Mexicans as “foreigners.” 
    4. Describe the complexity (ies) of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, its economic basis, laboring class movements, the impact on Mexican Americans and Mexicans, and the border as nationalistic/racial barrier.
    5. Discuss the totality of Chicana/o/x experiences in the 20th century as the laboring class of the U.S. West, the Mexican diaspora and the expected challenges of the 21st century in face of demographic changes, economic globalization and the communications revolution.
    Outline:
    1. Intensive Writing and Critical Inquiry
      1. Producing written discourse in more than one assignment through papers, reports, quizzes, tests, etc., which includes a minimum word standard of 3000 words.
      2. Written assignments emphasize critical inquiry which includes the gathering, interpreting, and evaluating of evidence.
      3. Includes a formal out of class paper of at least 1,500 words which requires critical inquiry and where the writer develops and supports a main idea.  
      4. Explicit writing instruction with timely feedback to help students improve their writing and critical inquiry skills is part of the course’s content.
      5. The evaluation of written assignments must include the overall quality of written work and critical inquiry, as measured by a rubric.
      6. At least 50% of the student’s grade must be based on the written work and critical inquiry assignments.
    2. Chicano(a) Historiography
      1. Vocabulary, Identities, Geographic and chronology
      2. History of Chicana/o/x studies and major thinkers
      3. Chicana/o/x roots I:indigenous worlds
      4. Chicana/o/x roots II: imperial Spain
      5. Chicana/o/x roots III: invasion, conquest, Africa and colonialism
    3. Movements North Under Spain and Mexico
      1. Explorations, conquests and settlement patterns in northern New Spain
      2. Society and political economy of the frontier north in Bourbon New Spain
      3. Earliest contacts of New Spain/Mexico and the United States
      4. Mexicanidad and the War of independence in the Northern Territories
      5. Fight for Texas: Why were there Mexicanos in the Alamo?
    4. Nineteenth Century to 1880: Repression and Resistance
      1. United Sates and its “Manifest Destiny” : War with Mexico, 1846-48
      2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: the rights of the first class citizenship
      3. California
      4. New Mexico-Arizona
      5. Texas
    5. Making of the Chicana/o/x Worker to WWII
      1. Political and economic dynamics in the development of the West
      2. From the coming of railroads to WWI
      3. Mexican Revolution and the Chicana(o)(x)s
      4. Chicana(o)(x)s in their worlds: urban barrios and rural colonias
      5. From the great depression to WWII: deportations and military service
    6. Toward the 21st Century: Struggles
      1. War generations demand equal rights: voting, jobs, unions, education
      2. Chicana/o/x movement: “Liberation Now!”
      3. “Decade of the Hispanic”: the middle class and brokering to power
      4. Mexican diaspora, the border and neoliberalism: the laboring classes and their movements for social change
      5. Chicana/o/x culture, art ideas: el rasquachismo versus conformity
      6. Remaining questions for the Chicana(o)(x)s into the 21st century