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
