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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 177 - Race, Citizenship, and Immigration in the United States


3 Credit(s) | Lecture | 
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of immigration in the United States. It moves from the early Republic to present-day debates that surround DREAMers and their families. The course will consider the causes, social contexts, and impacts of immigration on American society and culture. central to the course are such questions of race and citizenship as;: who is an immigrant; how ideas of immigration change overtime; how categories of race, nationality, and citizenship have affected American policies and the lived experiences of immigrants themselves; how immigration has shaped American history; and what it means to be an American.

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