History 126 - History of Mexico

 

Satisfies: Grossmont, CSU and UC General Education Requirement

 

Just a few of the topics the course covers:

 

• Pre Columbian Mexico: Olmec, Aztec, Maya
• Colonial Legacies: the Native, European and African formation of Mexico
• Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, “La Malinche”, Soldaderas, and gender relations in Mexico
• The Hidalgo Revolt and Mexican Independence
• Porfirio Diaz and the Integration of Mexico to the World Economy
• Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution
• Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, the PRI, and the making of Modern Mexico
• Oil, narcotrafficking, corruption and Politics
• Neo-Liberalism, NAFTA and the Zapatista Uprising
• The IMF, the WTO, “The Tequila Effect” and Globalization
• Comic books, masked wrestlers, masked guerrillas and social change

Offered Every Spring M,W 9:30 am