MAS 374- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Mexican American Studies
• Course: MAS 374
• Professor: M Menchaca

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*found in benson library: commentaries by scholars. Jack forbes: aztlan originated in southwest, presented some data: aztlan must have been in one of the sw states, many oral traditions about tribes leading those regions southwards, not about. Many of the others are descendents of other indigenous tribes: basically: poetics is fine but we need to move on to an analysis on what actually happened. Textual politics: why aztlan + american history: david weber, considered to be one of the main scholars of the american southwest, addressed issue of aztlan, claims that it was mostly poetics (1970s) but does agree that mexican- Anthropologists): most work in 60s was to contest the stereotypes; explain that segregation was cause of problems, there were many factors (bad school systems, etc) It was duri(cid:374)g ice age, a(cid:374)d there was (cid:373)ore (cid:862)la(cid:374)d(cid:863) to (cid:373)ake it easier to cross to. You are able to feed greater amounts of people and they can live together (pop.