HIST 2327 - Mexican-American History I
Integrated Reading & Writing Basic Skills Prerequisite: INRW 0420
A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include early indigenous societies, conflict and conquest, early European colonization and empires, New Spain, early revolutionary period, Mexican independence and nation building, United States expansion to the United States-Mexico War Era. Themes to be addressed are mestizaje and racial formation in the early empire, rise and fall of native and African slavery, relationship to early global economies, development of New Spain’s/Mexico’s northern frontier, gender and power, missions, resistance and rebellion, emergence of Mexican identities, California mission secularization, Texas independence, United States’ wars with Mexico, and the making of borders and borderlands.
This course fulfills the American History foundational component area of the core and addresses the following required objectives: Critical Thinking, Communication, Social Responsibility, and Personal Responsibility.
Semester Hours: (3 -3- 0)
CIP: 54.0102.54 25
Offered at: NLC: Yes NVC: Yes PAC: Yes SAC: Yes SPC: Yes Click here for course schedule information.
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