CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Soldaderas, Bracero Program, Agribusiness

• School: UCLA
• Department: Chicana and Chicano Studies
• Course: CHICANO 10A
• Professor: J O H N S O N

Document Summary

The border and the power of historical narrative. A paradox at odds with traditional (mexican) gender roles. Portrayed in non-threatening ways, as objects rather than agents. Social and cultural construction with material consequences. Included the wars of 1898 and the long war in the philippines. U. s. capitalist"s large-scale acquisition of mexican land and other resources, such as oil. The oldest treaty still in force between united states and mexico. Emerged as a world power in the late nineteenth century. Beyond territory, also an attitude of moral intellectual superiority. Material/geographical borderlands are fundamentally reflections of ideological notions of the borderlands. Not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. Nationalist movements in china, russia, ad mexico overturned weak central governments controlled by foreign investors. American economic and security interests at stake on three continents.