HIST 2800 - [Latinos in US History]

(crosslisted) AMST 2800, LSP 2800
(HA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

M. Garcia.

How would our understanding of U.S. history change if we began the national narrative in 16th century New Mexico rather than 17th century Virginia? What does U.S. history look like when examined as part of a broader hemispheric history? What does history look like from the vantage point of the colonized, the immigrant, the refugee and asylum seeker, the exile, transmigrante, and transnational? This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as American History. We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history – territorial expansion and empire, migration and nation building, industrialization and labor, war and revolution, and citizenship and transnationalism - but we will examine this “American experience” in a broader hemispheric context and include as actors americanos of Spanish, Mexican, Caribbean, and Central/South American Ancestries.