READINGS IN BORDERLANDS, CITIZENSHIP, AND IMMIGRATION HISTORY

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

This reading seminar is an introduction for graduate students to the historiography that constitutes the fields of U.S.-Mexico borderlands history. The seminar covers the period from the early colonial period to the near present. Special attention is given to historical questions that have been posed in the related but separate fields of American immigration history, including the significance and conceptualization of U.S. citizenship.