Listed in: American Studies, as AMST-165 | History, as HIST-165
Solsiree Del Moral (Section 01)
Rick A. Lopez (Section 01)
(Offered as HIST 165 [US] and AMST 165.) This course is an introduction to the history of U.S. Latinos/as, 1848 to the present. Central themes include ethnic and national identity, migration, gender, and political mobilization. Questions the course will answer include: What is ethnic identity? How does it relate to nationality? How has race historically fit into the equation? We will consider the role that imperialism has played in shaping patterns of Latino/a migration, identity and political mobilization. While the history of some groups begins with U.S. territorial conquest, for most Latinos/as migration has been central to their experiences. How has the crossing of different kinds of cultural and political frontiers changed over time? What is the difference between immigration and transnational migration? And how have different ideas of “home” and changing patterns of migration affected modes of political mobilization and ideas of citizenship? The course pays particular attention to the 1960s through the 1980s when Latinos/as mobilized in defense of their rights and against economic exploitation and undertook the “decolonization” of their communities. We will address why their struggles took the form of the right to have rights, a rejection of stereotypes, and the right to define their own identities. But what kind of narration of self did they recover? What issues divided different groups of U.S. Latinos/as (e.g., Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicanos, etc.) from one another? What commonalities have they shared? By the 1980s, ethnic-specific identities and mobilizations were increasingly subsumed under pan-Hispanic and pan-Latino/a movements. Why? What does “Latino” mean? How is it similar to or different from “Hispanic”? Is there an “American experience” that unites different U.S. Latinos/as groups and that separates them from Latin Americans? Two class meetings per week.
Fall semester. Professors del Moral and Lopez.
Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM WEBS 220
Th 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM WEBS 220
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and gender on an Anglo- Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 | New York: Oxford University Press, 1989 | Deutsch, Sarah | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 | New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 | Sánchez, George J. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City | Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994 | Sánchez Korrol, Virginia E. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States | Boston: Allyn and Bacon | Pessar, Patricia R | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States | Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995 | Oboler, Suzanne | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.