Chicano Studies

you are taking a chicano studies. class please read the following. and answer. the question.

Dear Students,

Welcome to Ethnic Studies 101 – Introduction to Chicana/o Studies! During the next 6 weeks, we will explore the earliest origins of the Chicana/o from the pre-Columbian periods to the 21st Century. Our readings will focus on selected aspects of the Chicana/o historical experience, including the impact of the Spanish Conquest, Mexican expansion into the American Southwest, the infiltration of Americans into the Southwest, the early contacts between whites and Chicanas/os, the collision of cultures both in Mexico as well as the northern Mexican frontier, the Mexican American War (1846-1848), and the period from the American acquisition in 1848 of Mexican territory to the present. Emphasis is placed on the role of the Chicana/o in the development of the United States throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century.

James Diego Vigil, From Indians to Chicanos: The Dynamics of Mexican-American Culture (any edition is fin

Part 2 – “What part of the history we will be studying this semester do you want to know more about? Why? Explain what it is about that part of history that interests you.” I