Schedule


Sept. 6 Introduction. Video Session One: "Pa’Lante"
Sept. 13 Video Session Two: "Chicano!"
Sept. 20 Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Race Formation in the United States From the 1960s to the 1990s (New York 1994).
Sept. 27 David Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (Berkeley, 1995), Introduction and chapters 1-3; and selected documents from Zaragosa Vargas, Major Problems in Mexican-American History (Boston, 1999), chapters 5-10.
Oct. 4 David Gutiérrez, Walls and Mirrors, chs. 4-6; and selected documents from Vargas, Mexican-American History, chs. 11-13. Virtual Reserve Room.
Oct. 5
7:00pm
Special Event with author Aurora Levins Morales. McCook Auditorium.
Oct. 11 Midsession
Oct. 18 Carlos Muñoz. Sixties Chicano Movement: Youth, Culture and Power (New York, 1989).
Oct. 25 Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco, 1987).
Nov. 1 Selections from: Cesar Andreu Iglesias, ed. The Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York (New York, 1984); and Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches (New York, 1982).
Nov. 8 José Cruz, Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Philadelphia, 1998).
Nov. 15 Ronald Fernandez, Los Macheteros the Wells Fargo robbery and the violent struggle for Puerto Rican independence (New York, 1987).
Nov. 22 Andrés Torres and José E. Velásquez, eds. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora (Philadelphia, 1998).
Nov. 29 Selections from: David Montejano, ed. Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century (Austin, 1999).
Dec. 6 Final Paper Presentations.
Dec. 17 Final Paper Due.