MexicoMexicans: HistoryFilm

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican lives have been shaped by a revolutionary search for justice and then a turn to urbanization, leading millions to migrate to Mexico City and millions more to labor and in time settle across the United States—working to forge diverse new communities there, too. Their struggles have been explored in classic films and powerful historical, social, and cultural studies generated by Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Anglo-Americans. This seminar draws students to engage five key films in the context of evolving scholarly visions in search of new understandings of Mexican lives in times of transforming change in Mexico and across North America