Chicano Studies 101
TOPICAL OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
* History * Historiography * Approaches to History
NEW WORLD LEGACY: 50,000bc to 1500ad
* Topography * Origins of Human Development * Precolumbian
THE CONQUEST: 1300 to 1521ad
* Europe *The Players * The Factors * Retrospect
SPANISH INSTITUTIONS: 1500s to 1800s
* Politics * Economy * Society * Centralist society
THE ENGLISH LEGACY
* Politics * Economy * Society * Decentralist society
19TH CENTURY MIND-SET & EXPANSION: 1800 to 1870s
* Conquest and Dispossession * Culture Clash: Assimilation, Acculturation, Internal Colonialism, Pluralism
INDUSTRIALIZATION &THE CIVIL WAR: 1800 to 1870s
* Economic Transformation * Causes * Forgotten Loyalist
PROGRESSIVISM &THE IRONIES OF PROGRESSIVISM: 1890s to 1920s
* Spanish American War 1898 * The Mexican Revolution * Wilson & Mexico
A CAPITALIST ROLLER-COASTER: 1920s to 1930s
* The Roaring Twenties * The Great Depression * Mexican Migration to the US
ROAD TOWARD SALVATION: WWII &CONFORMING AMERICA
* America Goes to War * Democracy Abroad, Repression at Home: Zoot Suiter & Sleepy Lagoon * Nationalism on the March: from NAZIS to OPERATION WETBACK
* Conforming America
DESTROYING CONFORMITY: 1960s to 1970s
* American Rebels: White, Black, and Brown * A Man Called Cesar: Rise of the UFW
* The Urban Response: The Chicano Civil Rights Movement
* In Search of Female Symbols: Chiquita's Cocoon
WHAT'S IN A NAME: 1980s to the New Mellennium
* From Indians to Hispanics: search for identity
* Chicanismo: Retrospect
VIDEOS: Seguin, Y no Se lo Trago la Tierra, Chicano Civil Rights Movement, The Lemon Grove Incident, Zoot Suit, Break of Dawn, The Maya