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Oct 31, 2024
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2024-2025 College Catalog
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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
- Define within a historical context the vocabulary of Chicanismo: geographies, histories, myths, and oral traditions.
- Explain the origins of Chicanismo and Chicana/o/x /Raza Studies within the context of the Chicana/o/x Movement in the 1960s.
- Explain Chicana/o/x perspectives of knowledge based in the history and culture of greater Mexico within the realities of the United States.
- Describe the major issues, ideas, influences, thinkers, leaders, events, social movements, art, artists, writers, and demographics.
- Conduct community-based observation and participation.
Outline:
- Defining Chicanismo
- Vocabulary of identities within a historical context
- History, homelands, origins and mythologies
- Eurocentric Narratives, Canon, and Chicana/o/x responses
- From Guadalupe Hidalgo to El Movimiento
- Chicana feminist critiques
- Chicano(a) Formation
- Barrios
- History of the barrios
- Family and work
- Practices, beliefs, and traditions
- Issues of segregated life
- Civil rights, mutualistas, and social organizations
- Urban super barrios: Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, and Phoenix
- Suburbia and the rise of the middle class
- Rural colonias and las files
- Justice
- The development of institutional racism and vigilantism
- The legacies of Manifest Destiny and the Alamo
- From the Texas Rangers to the Migra
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
- Grassroots human rights organizations: the Crusade for Justice
- Education
- Mexican schools and Americanization projects
- Major education lawsuits
- Bilingual-Bicultural struggles
- Walks outs challenge K-12 education
- Plan de Santa Barbara challenges academia
- Demographics and education today
- Politics
- Politics of exclusion and control
- Impact of WWII and Korean veterans
- Electoral politics to the Great Society
- Rise of Mexican unions
- Rise of a broker class
- Crystal City and La Raza Unida
- Farm workers organize las files and environmental, food, and justice
- New Mexican land struggles: the Alianza
- The Border and El Oro Lado
- Immigration and border policies from 1924
- Bracero agreements and results
- Undocumented workers organize: Centro de Acción Social Autónoma-Hermandad General de Trabajadores (CASA)
- Militarization: Operation Gatekeeper, 9/11 and Homeland Security
- U.S.-Mexico relations since North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA)
- The Border Wall
- The Chicano Movement Today
- Renascimiento
- Music from mariachi to Molotov
- Art from murals to performance
- Teatro
- Writers
- Poetry and the spoken word
- Cultural centers
- Dance
- Rasquachismo in the popular culture
- La Nueva Familia
- Guadalupe as militant feminist
- Lesbianas Y Los Gays
- Single working mothers
- Transborder families
- Catholicism and evangelistas
- Boy and girl gangs
- New spaces for the elders
- Nuevas Ondas
- Demographics
- Youth
- Media
- Business
- Middle class
- Film and television
- Internet
- Globalization
- America sin Fronteras: Visions for the 21st Century
- Future directions
- Border alliances and groups
Effective Term: Full Academic Year: 2020/21
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