HIST 3800 - [Latino America]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 3830, LSP 3800) (HA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014.

M. C. Garcia.

How would our understanding of U.S. history change if we began our national narrative in 16th-century New Mexico rather than 17th-century Virginia? What does U.S. history look like from the perspective of the colonized and the immigrant, the exile and the transnational? This course reframes our national history by examining pivotal events and themes in U.S. history from the perspective of different Latino populations. We will examine territorial expansion and empire, migration and nation building, industrialization and labor, and war and revolution in the “American experience” broadly defined to include americanos of Spanish, Mexican, Caribbean, and Central/South American ancestries.