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Spring 2019 | CHIC 3446 Section 001: Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium (53563)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
Open (16 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Experiences of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. Notions of citizenship from WWII. Chicano civil rights movement. Impact of immigration patterns/legislation. Cultural wars, changing demographics. Social, economic, and political changes that influenced day-to-day life of Mexican Americans. Meaning of racialized "Mexican" identity. How different groups of Mexicans have understood their relationships to other Americans and other Latino groups.
- Class Description:
- This course will explore the history of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States (Chicanas/os) from World War II to the Present. The time span of the course offers the opportunity to investigate key developments within U.S. history that have directly shaped our present societal context, focusing on increasing global interconnectedness and the intensification of ethnic and racial diversity. Historical study of the Chicana/o population provides insight into these issues through their struggles with transnational migration and citizenship status, legal and de facto racial segregation, and shifting cultural identities. Emerging from the perils of the Great Depression, the course begins with an analysis of U.S. society in World War II and its contradictory effects on Chicanas/os and other people of color through its rhetoric of ?Americans all? within the backdrop of legal segregation practices. Chicana/o communities came out of the War with both optimism and distressing questions about their place in U.S. society within an emerging context of fear and anxiety in the Cold War. Further contradictions emerged as grassroots Chicana/o activists and students battled segregation, work exploitation and immigration raids as U.S. officials called on its residents to prove their loyalty in the global showdown with a former ally, the Soviet Union. As some Mexican-American organizations heeded the call to prove their loyalty as ?true blue Americans? others continued to challenge the cultural and political limits of narrow definitions of American identity and political participation. In relation to global conflicts, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Liberation Struggle, the ?Chicano Movement? emerged in the 1960s to challenge the dictates of segregation and assimilation through a call for ethnic unity. Continued migration alongside mass deportations again surfaced in the 1970s and 80s creating a volatile structural context in which the Chicana/o population continued a divergent struggle for civil and human rights. The course will explore the complex experiences of Chicana/o History from the 1940s through the 1980s to comment on the continued significance of de facto practices of segregation, continued deportation-oriented policies on immigration that concentrate efforts at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the sustained struggle for inclusion at the end of the 20th century into the New Millennium. Fulfills: Liberal Education Core Requirement of Historical Perspectives Fulfills: Liberal Education Designated Themes Requirement of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53563/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 November 2011
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2019 Chicano Studies Classes