HIST 2328 - Mexican-American History II

CIP Code 5401025425

3 Course Credits

A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include the United States-Mexico War Era, incorporation of Northern Mexico into the United States, Porfirian Mexico, and the nineteenth century American West, 1910 Mexican Revolution and Progressive Era, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II and the Cold War, Civil Rights Era, Conservative Ascendancy, the age of NAFTA and turn of the 21st Century developments. Themes to be addressed are the making of borders and borderlands, impact of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, gender and power, migration and national identities, citizenship and expulsion, nineteenth century activism and displacement, industrialization and the making of a transnational Mexican working class, urbanization and community formation, emergence of a Mexican American Generation, war and citizenship, organized advocacy and activism, Chicano Movement, changing identifications and identities, trade and terrorism. (May be applied to U.S. History requirement.)

3 Lecture Hours Per Week
48 Contact Hours

Instructional Methods: LEC

Registration Restrictions: Must pass TSI in Reading or take INRW 0310
Must pass TSI in Writing or take INRW 0310

Texas High Education Coordinating Board Lower Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) course