HIST2327 — Mexican- American History I
HIST 2327 - Mexican- American History I Add to My Personal Catalog HIST 2327 - Mexican- American History I 3 Hours A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicana. 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 mestizo 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 HIST 2327 may be substituted for one semester of U.S. History. Course scheduling information.