Forgotten Frontera 2023 Accomplishments
Spring 2023
Courses Taught
HIST 4392/5392 / SPAN 4392: "Braceros: Beyond Labor and Language"
Course Materials
Migrant Labor Student Sites:
- Interview with Domitila Pesina
- Bracero Program Overview
- Interview with Fernando Corrales
- Interview with Belen D. Cordero
Summer 2023
Fall 2023
Courses Taught
SPAN 4392: "Contemporary Immigration Narratives"
HIST 3366: "North American Borderlands History"
Course Materials
Voces de inmigrantes: Life After Moving to the Panhandle
Books for North American Borderlands History
- Pekka Hämäläinen and Benjamin H. Johnson, Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands
- Ryan Hall, Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands
- Andrew Offenburger, Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1917
- Julie M. Weise, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
- Adam Goodman, Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Books for Contemporary Immigration Narratives
Zamora, Javier. Solito: A memoir.
Events
Wednesday, Sept. 20: Community Conversation at Innovation Outpost with Dr. Valerie Martinez, Irma Ornelas, and Dr. Timothy Bowman
Thursday, Sept. 21: Lecture at the FAC Recital Hall by Dr. Valerie Martinez
