HIST 327 - Borderlands

3 SS, CD, Wri
The American Southwest, roughly the US-Mexico border area from Texas to California, is a political, economic, and cultural crossroads. We will investigate interactions between Native Americans and Spanish colonists beginning in the 16 ^th century, emerging U.S. economic and political control during the 19 ^th century, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, land dispossession, the Mexican Revolution, immigration, civil rights, and 20 ^th-century demography. We also discuss borderlands as a literary and symbolic concept.

Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 15.
Mr. Mitchell
Next offered 2007-08.

Credits: 3-4 hours