HIST 3390: Special Topics: The U.S. Mexico Border,

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1 1 HIST 3390: Special Topics: The U.S. Mexico Border, Dr. Jeffrey P. Shepherd Wednesdays 4:30-7:20 / CRN Office: LART 326 / Hours: Tues & Wed 1:00-3:00 Liberal Arts Building 303 Office Phone: Course Description This course will focus on the border region shared by Mexico and the United States after Although the geographical scope will remain closely bound to the line between the U.S. and Mexico, content will address a range of themes, debates, patterns, and concepts. Foundational notions of race, citizenship, class, gender, sexuality, labor relations, immigration, war, nation-hood, state formation, militarization, vice, activism will guide our investigation of important historical events and people. To the best of our ability, we will anchor the course in a transnational framework that emphasizes the flows of capital, culture, people, and ideas across the line. We will note the structural tensions between the U.S. and Mexico, but we will also observe the communities that have straddled the increasingly rigid international boundary between nation states. Course materials will emphasize articles and essays, primary sources, documents, and films. Each student will complete a page research paper on some aspect of U.S. Mexico border history. Students are required to attend one of three visits to local places tied to issues discussed in class. Reading Material All readings are posted online ( Click on the tab Courses, located on the top of the page, and go to the bottom of the drop down menu. Click HIST 3390: Special Topics: The U.S. Mexico Border after Scroll down to Weekly Readings, and see the links (author, document) under the appropriate week. You are responsible for reading all materials. We will have five pop quizzes. Research Paper (225 points) This class is structured around the process of writing an original piece of scholarship. Your grade is based on completion of several steps in the research process. Instead of taking exams, you must research, write, revise, etc. This process requires you to come up with a research topic, devise a research question, search for primary and secondary sources, take notes, devise an outline, write drafts, revise, and follow-through with a complete paper. While moving through these steps you will build numerous skills that will help you in graduate school and in your professional career. For additional explanation of the research paper, please see the handout Directions for Research Paper. 1. Proposal & Bibliography for Paper (Due Feb. 12 th / 25 points) 2. Outline of Paper (Due Apr. 2 nd / 25 points) 3. Rough Draft of Paper (Due Apr. 23 rd / 50 Points) 4. Final Draft of Paper (Due May 14 th / 100 points) 5. Presentation of Work (25 points) Participation/Attendance and Peer Reviews (Peer Reviews 50 + General 50 = 100 points) I will take attendance every day. You are allowed ONE EXCUSED ABSENCE during the semester. Absences after that will lower your final grade. Participation in class discussions and in the Peer Review process is crucial. Everyone needs to participate in the discussions during class by asking questions, offering comments, and sharing your experiences about the research you are conducting. You must submit Peer Review sheets when I distribute them. Lastly, students must schedule one meeting with me in my office before February 6. Research Exercise #1: The U.S. Mexico Boundary Survey (25 points) Go to the library and search online for maps of the U.S. Mexico boundary after the War. Explain the boundaries as depicted in the Disturnel Map and then describe how the Mesilla Treaty (Gadsden Purchase) altered those boundaries. Cite at least one of the articles from the class readings. 500 words. Due February 5 Research Exercise #2: The El Paso Salt Wars (25 points) Go to Library and find the document, Report from Colonel Hatch on El Paso Troubles, on the Salt Wars in El Paso during the 1870s. In a brief essay of 500 words, explain the author s conclusions about the causes of the

2 2 Salt War. Who, if anyone, does he hold responsible? Does he come to any conclusions about the significance of the Wars? Please cite at least one of the articles posted on the class website. 500 words. Due February 26 Pop Quizzes (5 x 20 points = 100 points) I will administer 5 quizzes to assess how well you are reading the weekly primary and secondary documents. Grade Distribution Research Exercise #1: The U.S. Mexico Boundary Survey (25 points) Research Exercise #2: The El Paso Salt Wars (25 points) Proposal and Annotated Bibliography (25 points) Outline of Paper (25 points) Rough draft (50 points) Final Paper (100 points) Presentation of Work (25 points) Participation/Attendance (50 pts Peer Review + 50 pts attendance/contributions = 100 pts) Pop Quizzes (5 x 20 = 100 points) Total for Semester (475 points) Grading Scale A = B = C = D = F = 284> Polices & General Issues Students must follow the Academic Code of Conduct ( which covers issues such as ethical behavior, plagiarism and cheating. Students with special needs must contact me during the first two weeks of class. Students engaged in University sanctioned activities (sports, etc.) must provide written documentation. If you foresee non-school related situations that will prohibit you from attending classes, you must contact me in the first week of class. All assignments must be submitted on time. Late essay papers will lose one letter grade per day late. Papers turned in after I pick them up on the same day they are due will lose half a grade. Students may not talk in class while others are talking. Sleeping, surfing the internet, completing work for another class, and outbursts or offensive behavior are prohibited. COURSE SCHEDULE Week 1 (Jan 22) Thinking about the Borderlands Hamalainen & Truett, On Borderlands The Journal of American History (September 2011) Week 2 (Jan 29) Mexican Colonization Law U.S. Mexico War documents The 1840s and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Texas Revolution, U.S. Mexico War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Meet in UTEP Library, entrance near coffee stand Andres Resendez, National Identity on a Shifting Border: Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, Journal of American History Vol. 86. No. 2 (Sept., 1999), pp Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ernesto Chavez, Introduction to The U.S. War with Mexico (Bedford St. Martin s Press, 2007)

3 3 Week 3 (Feb 5) Boundary Survey documents Disturnel Map The Mesilla Treaty and Mapping the Borderlands, 1850s The U.S. Mexico Boundary Survey, Mesilla Treaty Due: Research Exercise #1 Meet in UTEP Library, entrance near coffee Rachel St. John, A New Map for North America: Defining the Border in Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. Mexico Border (Princeton University Press, 2012), Gadsden Purchase (Mesilla Treaty) Joseph Richard Werne, Surveying the Rio Grande Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. 94 No. 4 (April 1991): Week 4 (Feb 12) Frederick Law Olmsted on Slaves Escaping to Mexico, 1857 J.J. Bowden, The Texas New Mexico Boundary Dispute Along the Rio Grande Southwestern Historical Review V. 63 N. 2 (Oct 1959): National Wars, Civil Wars and Instability, 1850s & 1860s Slavery, Civil War, African/Indigenous Peoples, Benito Juarez Due: Proposal and Annotated Bibliography (25 points) Joseph Park, The Apaches in Mexican-American Relations, Arizona & the West Vol. 3 No. 2 (Summer 1961): U.S. Seeks Release from Treaty Obligation to Control Indian Raids into Mexico, 1851 Juan Nepomucena Cortina, Proclamation, 1859 U.S. Congress, Texas Frontier Troubles James David Nichols, The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves and Fugitive Peons in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands The Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 44 No 4. (Winter 2013): Miguel A. Gonzalez-Quiroga, Conflict & Cooperation in the Making of Texas-Mexico Border Society, , 33-58, in Ben Johnson and Andrew Graybill, Bridging National Borders in North America (Duke: 2010). Week 5 (Feb 19) Nation Building, Militarization, and Indigenous Peoples, 1860s-1880s Indigenous People, Militarization, social conflict, and border impacts Secondary Readings John G. Bourke, With Crook in Shelley Hatfield, Chapter, Chasing Shadows: Apaches and Yaquis Along the the Sierra Madre United States - Mexico Border, (UNM Press, 1998) General Crook Describes Difficulty of Capturing Geronimo, 1883 Apaches Ernest Wallace R. S. Mackenzie and the Kickapoos: The Raid into Mexico in 1873 Arizona & the West Vol. 7 No. 2 (1965): Michael M. Smith, General Rafael Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Border Crisis of 1877 Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. 112 No. 3 (Jan. 2009): Week 6 (Feb 26) Mexican Government Complains of Laborers Flight to U.S., 1873 Capitalism, Industrialization and Labor, 1870s-1910s Industries & economies, immigration, social & racial conflict Due: Research Exercise #2: The El Paso Salt Wars (25 points) Unknown, Law, Race, and the Border: The El Paso Salt War of 1877 Harvard Law Review Vol. 117 No. 3 (Jan. 2004): Comision Pesquisadora de la Frontera del Norte, Report to Lawrence Taylor, The Mining Boom in Baja California from 1850 to 1890 and the Emergence of Tijuana as a Border Community Journal of the

4 4 the President, 1873 Congressional Investigation Board, El Paso Troubles in TX Southwest Vol. 43 No. 4 (Winter, 2001): Miguel Tinker Salas, Sonora: The Making of a Border Society, Journal of the Southwest Vol. 34 No. 4 (Winter, 1992): Week 7 (March 5) Modernity and Progressive Era, 1880s-1920s Urbanization, popular culture, public health, vice Grace Pena Delgado, Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery Mexican Migrants Protest and Prostitution along the U.S. Mexico Borderlands, Western Gasoline Baths, 1917 Historical Quarterly Vol. 43 No. 2 (Sum 2012): El Paso Reporter Recalls Lure of Juarez in 1920s (1968) Alexandra Minna-Stern, Buildings, Boundaries, Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S. Mexico Border, The Hispanic American Historical Review Vo. 79 No. 1 (Feb 1999): Andrew Grant Wood, Anticipating the Colonias: Popular Housing in El Paso & Ciudad Juarez, Journal of the Southwest Vol. 43 No. 4 (Winter, 2001): MARCH SPRING BREAK Week 8 (March 19) The Mexican Revolution, s War in border communities Flores de Andrade Recalls Her Revolutionary Activity as an Immigrant in El Paso, 1911 South Texas Rebels Issue Manifesto "The Plan of San Diego," 1915 J. T. Canales, A Chicano Lawyer, Blasts the Texas Rangers The Plan of San Diego, 1915 J.T. Canales Blasts the Texas Rangers Clifford Perkins Describes Work as a Chinese Inspector in AZ Sheriff Justifies Deporting Striking Miners from AZ Town Linda B. Hall and Don M. Coerver, The Arizona-Sonora Border and the Mexican Revolution in Oscar Martinez, Ed. U.S. Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books, Scholarly Resources, 1997), Miguel Levario, The El Paso Race Riot of 1916 in Arnoldo De Leon, Ed. War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities (Texas A&M Press, 2012), Friedrich Katz, Pancho Villa and His Raid on Columbus, New Mexico American Historical Review Vol. 83 No. 1 (February, 1978): Week 9 (March 26) World War I, Xenophobia, and Border Surveillance, 1900s-1920s War, Red Scare, Immigration, Border Patrol U.S. Congress Imposes Natalia Molina, In a Race All Their Own: The Quest to Make Mexicans Restrictions on Migration, 1917 Ineligible for U.S. Citizenship Pacific Historical Review Vol. 79 No. 2 (May 2010): David Work, The Tenth U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican Border, Western Historical Quarterly V. 40 N. 2 (Sum, 2009): Patrick Ettinger, We Sometimes Wonder What They Will Spring on Us Next : Immigrants and Border Enforcement in the American West, Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 37 No 2 (Summer 2006):

5 5 Week 10 (April 2) The Great Depression, Repatriation and World War II, Great Depression & World War II, Deportation/Repatriation Outline of Paper (25 points) Send via as MSWORD document Celdon C. Menefee, Mexican Migratory Workers in South Texas: Chrystal City, 1938 Oscar Martinez, Prohibition and Depression in Ciudad Juarez-El Paso in Oscar Martinez, Ed. U.S. Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books, Scholarly Resources, 1997): Philip Stevenson Describes the Deportation of Jesus Pallares, 1936 Casey Walsh, Demobilizing the Revolution: Migration, Repatriation and Colonization in Mexico, Working Papers, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego (2000) Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 33, No. 1 (Fall 2013): Week 11 (April 9) Labor, Movement, and Agricultural Empires, Transnational Green Revolution, Bracero Program, Operation Wetback Bracero and Migrant Manuel Hernandez, The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Padilla Remembers Working Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943 to 1954 The Life in Borderlands, 1974 Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 37 No. 4 (2006): President Lyndon Johnson Signs New Immigration Law, 1965 Gerald Cadava, On the Borderlands of Modernity and Abandonment: The Lines Within Ambos Nogales and the Tohono O Odham Nation, The Journal of American History (September 2011): Week 12 (April 16) Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande: Treaty Between the USA and Mexico, 1944 Boundary Solution of the Problem of the Chamizal, Convention between the USA and Mexico, 1963 Lori A. Flores, A Town Full of Dead Mexicans: The Salinas Valley Bracero Tragedy of 1963, the End of the Bracero Program, and the Evolution of California s Chicano Movement Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 44 No. 2 (Summer 2013): Land, Water, and Resources, 1920s-1960s U.S. Mexico Water Treaty, Colorado River, Chamizal Larman C. Wilson The Settlement of Boundary Disputes: Mexico, the U.S., and the International Boundary Commission International and Comparative Law Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan. 1980): Evan Ward, The 20 th Century Ghosts of William Walker: Conquest of Land and Water as Central Themes in the History of the Colorado River Delta The Pacific Historical Review Vol. 70 No. 3 (Aug 2001): Jeffrey Schulze, The Chamizal Blues: El Paso, the Wayward River, and the Peoples in Between Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 43 No. 3 (Autumn 2012): Week 13 (April 23) Cesar Chavez Boycotts Border Communities in Transition, 1960s-1970s Border Industrialization Program, Immigration Reform, Activism Due: Rough draft (50 points) Frieda Molina, The Social Impacts of the Maquiladora Industry on Mexican Border Towns Berkeley Planning Journal V. 2 N. 1 (1985):

6 Immigration Law Oscar J. Martinez Border Conflict, Border Fences, and the Tortilla Curtain Incident of Journal of the Southwest Vol. 50 No. 3 (Autumn 2008): Week 14 (April 30) Immigration, Exclusion, and Globalization, 1980s-2001 NAFTA, GATT, Immigration, Border Enforcement President Bill Clinton Praises Free Trade Agreement, 1993 Mexican Maids: El Paso s Worst Kept Secret Tom Miller Describes Smuggling Electronics into Mexico Week 15 (May 7) Minuteman Defense Corps Calls for Volunteer Border Enforcement, 2005 Timothy Brown, The Fourth Member of NAFTA: The U.S. Mexico Border Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 550 (Mar 1997): Megan S. Austin, A Culture Divided by the U.S. Mexico Border: The Tohono O Odham Claim for Border Crossing Rights Arizona Journal of Comparative and International Law V. 8 N. 2 (1997): Timothy Dunn, Border Militarization Via Drug and Immigration Enforcement: Human Rights Implications Social Justice Vol 28 No 2 (Summer 2001): 7-30 A Post-9/11 Borderlands Impact of 9/11 on Borderland Communities Group 1 Presentation of Work (25 points) Denise Gilman, Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-Mexico Border Wall Texas International Law Journal V. 257 (Spring 2011) Witt, U.S. fence creates river of ill will on Texas border Testimonio, Eva Arce, Mother of Silvia Arce, Disappeared March 11, 1998 Maria Christina Morales and Cynthia Bejarano, Transnational Sexual and Gendered Violence: An Application of Border Sexual Conquest at a U.S. Mexico Border, Global Networks Vol. 9 No. 3 (2009): FINAL EXAM DATE AND FINAL PAPER DUE: Wednesday, May 14 7:00-9:45PM (Hard copy and electronic copy) Final Paper (100 points) Group 2 Presentation of Work (25 points)