COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a supplement to the "Wounds in the Sand" Border Trip that will take place Spring Break 2002. Our goal for the course will be to look at how some of the key perspectives and interests faced by those of us (all of us) caught between the United States and Mexico converge and diverge not only at the border, but also further within the confines of both of these nations. For the sake of focus, we will primarily look at the "illegal" migrations of people, culture, capital, labor, etc. that "trespass" across arbitrarily constructed frontera-borders.

Participants will receive 1-2 units of independent study through the Human Biology Department. The option for an extra unit can be earned by writing a final 5pg paper which will be published on the class website. We will meet one time per week for 1 1/2 hours. Assigned readings will range from 15 to 25 pages per week. Suggestions for additional or alternate readings are welcome.
Please purchase a copy of Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society by Leo R. Chavez

DIRECTED READING LIST

Week 1: Jan. 14th
Theme: History of Labor, Resistance, and Legislation on the Border
Reading:
Gómez-Quiñones, Juan and David R. Maciel. "Political Practice and Cultural Response: The Internationalization of Mexican Labor." Culture Across Borders. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. 27-55. (25pgs)
Border-Trip Info: Commitment Form and Borderlinks Registration ($25) Due

Week 2: Tuesday, Jan. 22nd
Theme: U.S.-Mexico Interdependence
Reading:
Bustamante, Jorge. "Interdependence, Undocumented Migration and National Security." U.S. - Mexico Relations. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. 21-44. (10pgs)
Gibbs, Nancy. "A whole new world." Time. 11 June 2001: 38-45. (7pgs)
Roche, Timothy. "Just another day in a bridge town." Time. 11 June 2001: 50-53. (3pgs)
Padgett, Tim and Cathy Booth Thomas. "Two countries, one city." Time. 11 June 2001: 64-66. (2pgs)
In-Class: New world border. [videorecording] / a Peek Media production ; produced and edited by Casey Peek ; associate producer, Jose Palofox. 28min. ZVC 15777

Week 3: Jan. 28th
Theme: Globalization and Border Militarization
Reading:
Andreas, Peter. "The U.S. Immigration Control Offensive: Constructing an Image of Order on the Border." Crossings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 343-353. (10pgs)
McCarthy, Terry. "The Coyote's Game." Time. 11 June 2001: 56-60. (4pgs)
Padgett, Tim and Shannon Elaine. "The border monsters." Time. 11 June 2001: 69-70. (2pgs)
Davis, Mike. "La Frontera Siamese Twins." Magical Urbanism. (8pgs)
Guest Lecturer: Alfonso, LAS masters student

Week 4: Feb. 4th
Theme: Crossing Borders
Reading:
Chavez, Leo R. "Crossing Borders." Shadowed Lives. San Diego: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1992. 41-61. (20pgs)
In-Class: Crossing Borders/Cruzando Fronteras [video-recording]/ a Pan Left production ; produced by Heather Lares and Coalición de Derechos Humanos

Week 5: Feb. 11th
Theme: Being Illegal
Reading:
Chavez, Leo R. "Learning to Live as an Illegal Alien." Shadowed Lives. San Diego: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1992. 157-169. (11pgs)
In-Class: Watch La Ciudad

Week 6: Tuesday, Feb. 19th
Theme: Being Illegal cont.
Reading:
Chavez, Leo R. "Paradise at a Cost." U.S. - Mexico Relations. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. 271-301. (16pgs)

Week 7: Feb. 25th
Theme: Immigrants in the Local Area: Day Laborers
Reading:
Fernandez-Kelly, María Patricia. "Maquiladoras and Cultural Change in Ciudad Juarez." For We are Bought and Sold, I and My People. Albany: State Univeristy of New York Press, 1983. 133-150. (17pgs)
In-Class: Watch Los Trabajadores/ The Workers [videorecording]; produced by Heather Courtney. 2000.
Guest Lecturer: John F. Rinaldi, Attorney and Counsellor at Law - EPA Law Project

Week 8: March 4th
Theme: Labor Organizing, Resistance and Human Rights Advocacy
Reading:
Taliman, Valerie. "Borders and native Peoples: Divided but not Conquered." Native Americas. V.XVIII; N.1 (Winter 2001): 10. (7pgs)
Mines, Richard and Jeffrey Avina. "Immigrants and Labor Standards: The Case of California Janitors." U.S. - Mexico Relations. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. 429-448. (9pgs)
Guest Lecturer: SLAC

Week 9: March 11th
Theme: Education, Art and Culture in the Borderlands
Reading:
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo. "90s Culture of Xenophobia: Beyond the Tortilla Curtain." The New World Border. San Francisco: City Lights, 1996. 62-71. (5 pgs)
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo. "Danger Zone: Cultural Relations between Chicanos and Mexicans at the End of the Century." Herencia edited by Nicólas Kanellos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 625-631. (4pgs)
Guest Lecturer: Professor Amado Padilla

Week 10: March 18th
Theme: Border-Trip Details
Reading: none
In-Class: Watch and discuss El Norte
Due: Final Paper on Border-Related Topic, 5pgs

Week 11: March 24th - March 31st
Wounds in the Sand: The Arizona-Sonora Border Region
Alternative Spring Break Trip