North/South Borderlands of the United States
HIST 365
Fall 2025 not offered
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This advanced seminar on the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borderlands situates our current moment's renewed anti-migrant and pro-border policing politics within a longer history of mobility, immigrant exclusion, labour exploitation, and border violence while disrupting common assumptions that place the northern and southern borders of the United States in binary opposition to one another. The course guides us in thinking expansively about what constitutes border violence and policing within differing racial and national contexts. We will engage with histories and historiographies from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, pulling together diverse countries that nonetheless share not only geographies but political visions of mobility and migrant life, whether dictated "from above" by state actors or "from below" by communities acting (at times) in solidarity with one another. The class traces border politics at hemispheric, national, and local levels along with immigrant, labour, and Indigenous politics from the nineteenth century to the present day. The course will help us make historical sense of renewed calls for immigration restriction alongside opposing calls for solidarity that are envisioned in the popular slogan "No One is Illegal on Stolen Land." |
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| Credit: 1 |
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| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (History Minor)(History) |
Major Readings:
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Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
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