Week4 Choose1 no word limit
1: The program of Repatriation in the 1930s, during the Great Depression deported hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent with the justification that “American jobs are for American people.” Have we seen programs and/or sentiments similar to these in the past couple decades? Why do think these kinds of ideas keep surfacing?
2: When we talked about the Zoot Suits, the professor mentioned that just because of the way that Pachucos dressed, they were racialized as criminal. What are some examples of ways that certain subcultures are racialized as criminal today?
Week 6 Choose 1 no word limit
1. Think about all the different things we’ve discussed and learned about this quarter.
Are there any historical events we covered that are drastically different from the ways in which they are/were presented to you when you were younger?
How have the historical events that we covered shaped our present society? Not just in terms of “The US has more territory now because of the Mexican-American War” but think about how events of the past affect things like foreign relations, or economic, social, and cultural processes today.
Week2
Choose one discussion question to answer, and write a response that is a minimum of 300 words. Responses must be posted by Monday Aug 16th (any time of day is fine.)
Question 1
How did 19th century American politicians and intellectuals conceptualize (construct, think of) manifest destiny, and how did they use manifest destiny to rationalize United States expansionism, the war with Mexico, and the takeover of the Southwest? Do we see echoes of this ideology today? What are some examples?
Question 2
Article IX of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gives Mexicans residing in the territory that the US gained in the Mexican American War the choice to become US citizens, and grants them all of the rights and protections of citizens under the Constitution. This means that legally, they are considered to be white (and even today, most Mexicans and Latinx people are racially classified as white on the US census.) What are some examples of how the United States did not follow through with this promise? Why were Mexican origin people considered lower status than other white populations, including recent immigrant populations from Italy, Poland, or Ireland for example? Do we still see examples today of Mexican origin people not being treated as white? Give examples.
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