ETHN 130 HIUS 158 - Social & Econ Hist/Southwest I - Frank [SP20]

The geography we call the Southwest, from Texas to California, became a region in the American imagination through a complex history of Indigenous people’s placemaking, Spanish colonial occupation from Mexico, and American invasion in the mid-19th century. This course provides an understanding of the formation of central issues that we face today: continuing colonial relations, racial-ethnic differentiation, borders, immigration, and indigenous sovereignties, among others.