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Enables students to increase their knowledge base about specific social issues while at the same time increasing their sense of efficacy in fulfilling their role in addressing complex social justice issues. The case method approach will be used to cover a range of topics such as immigration, homelessness, education, health care, mental health, eminent domain, poverty, gangs and community development. Students will be challenged to think critically about vital issues, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of competing solutions, explore policy alternatives, and grapple with the unintended consequences of any decision

The lay of the land -- Identity in discourse : the "race" has been lost -- Identity in performance -- Africa in Mexico, an intellectual history -- Culture work : so much money -- Being from here -- A family divided? : centripetal and centrifugal forces -- Transnationalism, place and the mundane

Engaging primary documents and scholarly debates, this article examines an array of practices in colonial Mexico as it undertakes a discursive account of how gender ideologies informed the politics of discipline and a range of behaviors that went from atypical sexuality to cross-dressing and witchcraft. It speaks to a world set ambiguously between the violations of social norms and the uncertainties of official culture as it examines these heterodox practices, especially those related to Indians. ; Por medio de documentos primarios y debates académicos, este artículo examina una serie de prácticas en el México colonial que revelan cómo las ideologías de género informaban las políticas de disciplinamiento, así como una serie de comportamientos que iban desde la sexualidad atípica hasta el travestismo y la brujería. De este modo, nos habla de un mundo establecido ambiguamente entre las violaciones de las normas sociales y las incertidumbres de la cultura oficial, ya que examina prácticas heterodoxas, especialmente relacionadas con los indígenas.

Este artículo delinea la forma en que dos relatos de un pueblo 'afromexicano' de la Costa Chica de México apuntan a tensiones entre gente "negra" e "india." Los relatos, que tratan del santo patrimonio del pueblo y de un naufragio de un barco con cargo de gente esclavizada, arrojan luz sobre las afirmaciones de identidad ancladas en la raza y el lugar, especialmente en la fusión de negrura e indigeneidad en la forma del 'moreno,' una categoría racial asociada con la Costa Chica. A la vez, los relatos convergen alrededor de eventos históricos concretos y la penetración mutua caracterizada por movimientos espaciales y temporales que han afectado tanto a negros como a indios. Estos movimientos incluyen el comercio de esclavos, el colonialismo, la búsqueda de tierras cultivables, y las migraciones contemporáneas. La historia etnográfica cuyas narraciones entretejo, ubica el desarraigo y la contestación en el centro de los procesos culturales a través de los cuales se construyen lugares e identidades.Abstract: This article examines two stories from an 'Afromexican' village on the Costa Chica of Mexico that point to tensions between" black "and" "Indian" peoples. The stories, which deal with the patron saint of the village and the wreck of a slave ship, shed light on affirmations of identity anchored in race and place, especially in the fusion of blackness and indigeneity in the form of 'moreno' a racial category associated with the Costa Chica. At the same time, the stories converge around specific historical events and the mutual penetration characterized by spatial and temporal movements that have affected both blacks and Indians. These movements include the slave trade, colonialism, the search for arable land, and contemporary migrations. The ethnographic history whose narrations I interweave, place uprooting and contestation at the center of the cultural processes through which places and identities are constructed.

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This article examines patterns in the black/Indian relationship in Mexico during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It focuses on microlevels of society and on the practice of power in two pivotal domains, one centered on instances of labor coercion and civil control, and the other on what was labelled "witchcraft." The analysis suggests that Spanish colonialism embodied contradictions at its very foundations as it created sites of power for both blacks and Indians, who were alternately constituted as dominating and subordinated subjects vis‐à‐vis each other and the Spanish colonizers.

Traces the history of Spanish racism through the example of Mexico. It is argued that Spanish racism differed from modern racism in that it was grounded in the superiority of "things Spanish," including whiteness, Christianity, & Hispanization. Colonial discourse, in drawing on racial differences & social nonconformity, connected the darker-skinned Indians, runaway slaves, & vagabonds to animals & disease. Spanish perceptions of the colonies were influenced by dispatches that reported blacks as prone to aggression & evil, & Indians as weak & ignorant. The colonial elite were thus able to continue the exploitation of African & Indian peoples to protect their own economic privilege. 32 References. M. Greenberg