HIST R107 — History of Mexicans in the United States
This course provides a historical survey of the Mexican and Chicano/a/x experience from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Emphasis is placed on Mexican settlement in Greater Mexico and the United States' Southwest within the broader narrative of United States history. The course examines the participation, contributions, and lived experiences of Mexicans in the United States across major socio-historical, political, judicial, legislative, economic, and educational developments. Students will explore significant moments in the histories of both Mexico and the United States, including the colonial period, the early national era, the framing of the U.S. Constitution, westward and northward migration over the past 250 years, the American Mexican War, the Bracero Program, the Mexican American labor movement, the Chicano/a Movement, and the evolution of U.S.–Mexico relations into the early twenty-first century.