Anth 322M / MAS 374/LAS 324 TTH 11:00-12:30 Fall 2015 UN: 30510(A)/ 35220(M)/39435(L) GDC Mexican American Indigenous Heritage

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1 Anth 322M / MAS 374/LAS 324 Menchaca TTH 11:00-12:30 Fall 2015 UN: 30510(A)/ 35220(M)/39435(L) GDC Mexican American Indigenous Heritage This course examines the cultural prehistory and racial history of Mexican Americans from 1519 to the present. The purpose of the course is to examine how policies and laws enacted by the governments of Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. impacted the ethnic and racial identities of Mexican Americans. The geographic focus of the course is Mexico and the United States Southwest. Aug 27 TH Introduction Sept 1 T The Chicano Movement & Intellectual Foundations 3 TH 8 T Film: Chicano Civil Rights (DVD 8542, Ep.1) 10 TH 15 T Ancient Indians of Mexico & the American Southwest Film: Mysteries of the First Americans (Prof.) 17 TH Film: Mesoamerica (Prof.)/ Spirits of the Canyon (Prof.) 22 T 24 TH The Spanish Period 29 T Film: Cabeza de Vaca (vc4607; Benson) Quiz October 1 TH 6 T 8 TH 13 T Reading Day! 15 TH MIDTERM 20 T 22 TH 27 T The Mexican Period 29 TH Nov 3 T 5 TH Film: Mexico: A Story of Courage & Conquest (vc7525, vol. 2) 10 T Anglo American Period 12 TH 17 T Film: To be determined. 19 TH Paper is due 24 T 26 TH Holiday: Thanksgiving! Dec 1 T 3 TH Conclusion

2 9 Wed Final Exam: 2-5pm (Do not make plans until you have official notification the university). 2 Required Readings You will be expected to read parts of the following books: Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain, Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race, and Meyer, Sherman and Deeds, The Course of Mexican History (2010 ed.). These books are available at the University Co-op (2246 Guadalupe St.) and the reader may be purchased at Jenn s Copy & Binding, (2200 Guadalupe Street, the corner of 22 nd & Guadalupe in basement, ). Books are also on reserve at PCL. Cultural Diversity Flag This course fulfills a cultural diversity flag. The Cultural Diversity requirement is intended to increase your familiarity with the variety and richness of the American cultural experience. Courses carrying this flag ask you to explore the beliefs, practices, and histories of at least one cultural group that has experienced persistent marginalization. Many of these courses also encourage you to reflect on your own cultural experiences. Exams and Assignment Students are required to take a quiz, midterm, and final examination. A threepage paper review of two of the films viewed in class is also required. Your analysis of the films can be written in one essay, or your paper can be based on two separate reviews of the films. Readings from assigned articles or books can be included in your analysis (e.g., the films offer an alternate analysis to the readings, the films provide supplementary information to the readings on Mesoamerica). Grading Attendance is required and excessive absences will affect your grade. Students who have a perfect attendance record will receive a 3 point credit. Students with only one to two absences will also receive credit. Only a doctor s letter or a death in your family will be acceptable excuses for a make-up exam. Professor Menchaca must approve the make-up exam ahead of time. Students who have not attended class are not eligible for a make-up exam. Grade distribution: 5% Quiz (the quiz can be retaken, and the highest grade kept) 5% Review of two in class films 40% Midterm 50% Final Exam

3 3 Office Hours Dr. Menchaca office hours: Anthropology Dept., SAC 5.158, Tuesday 1 to 3, and by appointment. Reading Assignments by Topic Location Code for Readings: Textbook (Only read assigned pages) Reader (Read in order as assigned) (SR) Suggested Reading in reader) Introduction: No reading The Chicano Movement and Intellectual Foundations Vigil, J.D Breakup and Transformation of the Social Order (Stage IV). In From Indians to Chicanos. Pp Prospects Heights, Ill: Waveland Press. Gómez-Quiñones, Juan and Irene Vásquez Preface. In Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, Pp. ixxxiii. NM: University of New Mexico Press. Preface (ix-xxii), Chapter 9: Tierra y Vida (pp ), Chapter 23: Renaissance (pp ). Rendon, A The People of Aztlán. In Chicano Manifesto. Pp New York: The MacMillan Co. Ancient Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest Fagan, B The Earliest Americans. In First North Americans. Pp London: Thames and Hudson. University of Texas Press. Read: Meyer, M. C., W. L. Sherman, and S.M. Deeds The Course of Mexican History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read: Chapters 1-5. Hester, T. R Perspectives on the Material Culture of the Mission Indians of the Texas-Northeastern Mexico Borderlands. In Columbian Consequences: Vol. 1, Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West. D. H. Thomas, ed. Pp Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

4 4 Hall, T. D The Southwest: The Region, the Peoples and Prehistory. In Social Change in the Southwest, Pp Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Costello, J.G. and D. Hornbeck Alta California: An Overview. In Columbian Consequences: Vol. 1, Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West. D. H. Thomas, ed. Pp Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. The Spanish Period Diaz, B The Conquest of New Spain. NY: Penguin Books. The following chapters may be skipped: The Expedition of Juan de Grijalva, The Expedition of Hernando Cortes: Preparations, Cortes Collects Fresh Strength, Expeditions Around the Lake. Meyer, M. C., W. L. Sherman, and S.M. Deeds The Course of Mexican History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read: Chapters University of Texas Press. Read: Meyer, M. C., W. L. Sherman, and S. M. Deeds The Course of Mexican History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read: Chapter 12. Brooks, James This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex : Negotiating Captivity in the Borderlands. Feminist Studies 22(2): The Mexican Period University of Texas Press. Read: Meyer, M. C., W. L. Sherman, and S.M. Deeds The Course of Mexican History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read: Chapters 15, 16, 18.

5 Mason, W. M Alta California During the Mission Period, Masterkey 60(2/3): (SR) Pubols, Louise Fathers of the Pueblo: Patriarchy and Power in Mexican California In Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History. Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, eds. Pp Durham: Duke University Press. The Anglo American Period University of Texas Press. Read: Ríos-Bustamante, A The Barrioization of Nineteenth-Century Mexican Californians: From Landowners to Laborers. Masterkey 60(2/3): Racial Segregation and its Social Evolution University of Texas Press. Read: Menchaca, M The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest. Cultural Dynamics, 20: Lui, Meizhu, et al Land Rich, Dirt Poor: Challenges to Asset Building in Native America. In the Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. Meizhu Lui, et al. Pp New York: The New Press.

6 Mexican American Indigenous Heritage 6 Table of Contents Vigil, J. D.... Gómez-Quiñones and Vásquez Gómez-Quiñones and Vásquez.. Gómez-Quiñones and Vásquez. Rendon, A... Fagan, B Hester, T. R... Hall, T. D... Costello, J. G. and Hornbeck, D... Brooks. Mason, W. M... Pubols, L. (suggested reading only)... Ríos-Bustamante,A... Menchaca, M... Liu, M..