TalesfromtheChihuahuanDesert:Borderlands
NarrativesaboutIdentityandBinationalism
NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities
ASummerInstituteforSecondarySchoolTeachers(Grades6–12)
ExpandedSyllabus
Thefollowingscheduleprovidesanoverviewofthetopicsaddressedineachdayof
the two-week Institute, the general flow of activities, and the readings associated
with each day. Institute readings include articles and selected chapters—some
considered classics, some more recent interpretations, some written by UTEP
faculty and visiting guest lecturers. Together, these documents provide valuable
backgroundandvaryingperspectivesaboutourtopic.
ThefourrequiredbooksasfullreadingsshouldbereadinadvanceoftheInstitute
including the primary books assigned for the Institute. Optional related readings
provide additional information on selected topics. You may refer to them as
appropriateforyoure-portfoliodevelopmentwithinstructionallessons.
ThecoursereaderwillbeavailabletodownloadfromtheInstituteproject’swebsite
uponacceptance.
Additional handouts—mostly primary sources and instructional lesson support—
will be posted on the project website and handed out over the course of our two
weekstogether.
Eachweekdayisorganizedwithmorningandafternoonsessions.Themorningsare
dedicated to lectures and dialogue related the guiding questions and assigned
readings, while afternoons will be dedicated to e-portfolios specific learning
workshopsande-portfoliodevelopmentwithindependentstudyasfollows:
MorningSession 8:30AMto12:00PM(MT)
AfternoonSession 1:20PMto4:30PM(MT)
Basedonthepre-scheduledengagementonly,eveningswilllikelybeginat6:00PM
through8:00PM(MT).
Sunday,July16th:Arrival,Welcome,andOrientation
• LateAfternoon:Instituteco-directors,twoofourUTEPfacultymembers,and
two Visiting Guest Lecturers will be in the Hilton Garden Inn at UTEP to
welcometheSummerScholarsandassistwithcheck-in.
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Evening: Meet and greet reception hosted by UTEP and includes a guided
tour of the museum galleries plus coffee and dessert. A walking tour of
downtownElPasowillbeavailable.
RequiredReadings
Hämäläinen,PekkaandBenjaminH.Johnson,“Chapter1WhatisBorderlands
history”and“Chapter2EarlyBorderlands:TheSouthwest”inMajorProblemsin
theHistoryofNorthAmericanBorderlands.CENGAGELearning,2012,pp.1-82.
Perales, Monica. “Part I: Making Places” and “Part II: Making Identities” in
Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community.
UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2010,pp.1-96,97-224.
Ruiz, Vicki. “Chapter 1, Border Journeys,” “Chapter 2, Confronting ‘America,’” and
“Chapter6,ClaimingPublicSpace”inFromOutoftheShadows:MexicanWomen
inTwentieth-CenturyAmerica. 10thAnniversaryEdition.OxfordUniversityPress,
2008,pp.3-32,33-50,127-146.
WEEKONE:July16th–July22nd,2017
SettingtheStage:HistoriographyintheChihuahuanDesertand
Inquiry-BasedLearning
TheOriginsofHistoryandNarrativesattheBorder
GUIDINGQUESTIONS
Whatishistory?
Whataretherolesofachroniclerofhistory?
Fromtheborder?
Fromafar?
Whydowetellthestoryoftheborderaswedo?
Whatcanwelearnaboutliteraturebyexaminingthepointsofview?
Monday,July17th:SettingtheStage:ApproachestoHistoryandNarratives
• WelcomeandOverview[Martínez,Rodríguez]
• ApproachestoHistoryandNarratives[Leyva]
• IntroductiontoUTEPandResources[Leyva,Martínez]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Whatishistory?Whatareourrolesas
teachersandtellersofhistories?[Martínez,Leyva]
• IntroductiontoE-PortfolioProjects[Rodríguez,Varela]
• WorkshopCourse,TalesoftheChihuahuanDesert:DevelopingInstructional
LessonPlansthroughInquiry-BasedLearning[Rodríguez,Varela]
RequiredReadings
Heyman, Josiah. “‘Illegality’ and the U.S.–Mexico Border: How It Is Produced
and Resisted.” In Cecilia Menjívar and Daniel Kanstroom, eds., Constructing
Illegality in America: Immigrant Experiences, Critiques, and Responses, pp. 111-135.
CambridgeUniversityPress,2014.
Hinojosa-Smith, Rolando R. “Texas and the Flag.” Callaloo Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter
2001),pp.91-93.
Orsi, Richard J. “‘These Mountains Look Too Ugly and I See Too Much Work
Ahead’:BuildingtheSouthernPacific[Railway]Company,1850–1930.”InThe
Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930.
UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2007.
Tuesday,July18th:What’sHistoryandWhoseShallWeTeach?
• BackgroundonChihuahuanBorderlandsandItsPeople[Leyva]
• SpainintheSouthwest:IntroductiontothecolonialhistoryoftheAmerican
Southwestandunderstandingthelegacyofconquest.[Martínez]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howcanafocusonbi-national
communitiessuchastheElPaso–CiudadJuárezmetroplexinformour
understandingaboutcitizenship,history,andidentity?[Levya,Perales]
• WorkshopCourse,TheBorderlandsinDigitalWorlds:E-PortfolioProjectand
LessonPlansDevelopment[Varela,CreativeStudiosTeam]
FocusQuestion:(1)Whatmakeshistoricaleventsintomilestonesinthe
makingofliterarynarrativesandborderpeople’sidentitiesinthe
ChihuahuanDesertborderlandsregion?
RequiredReadings
Leyva,Yolanda.“MuseoUrbano’sBorderImmigrationDialogues.”inInterpreting
ImmigrationatMuseumsandHistoricSites.SarahPharaon,ed.Rowman&Littlefield
Publishers/AASLH(2016).
Leyva, Yolanda. “Healing the Borderlands across the Centuries.” In Grace and
Gumption:TheWomenofElPaso.TexasChristianUniversityPress,(2011).
Martínez, Ignacio. “New Spain and the American West From Contact to Late
Nineteenth Century.”InEdCavanaghandLorenzoVeracini,SettlerColonialismin
WorldHistory,undercontractwithRoutledgePress,(forthcoming,June2016).
Ruiz, Vicki. “Chapter 1, Border Journeys,” “Chapter 2, Confronting ‘America,’” and
“Chapter6,ClaimingPublicSpace”inFromOutoftheShadows:MexicanWomen
inTwentieth-CenturyAmerica. 10thAnniversaryEdition.OxfordUniversityPress,
2008,pp.3-32,33-50,127-146.
Wednesday,July19th:OralHistoryforHistory’sSake
• Introduction:PracticeofEthnographyandOralHistory[Leyva]
• ReadingOralHistoriesfromtheChihuahuanDesertandBorderlands[Levya]
RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Whataretherolesofachroniclerof
history?[Leyva,Martínez]
• TouroftheUTEPOralHistoryInstitute
• TourofMuseoUrbano
• TourofUnionPacificRailroad’sSantaTeresaTerminal
• ShareE-PortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment
RequiredReadings
Mora,Pat.“TheBorder:AGlareofTruth.”InNepantla:EssaysfromtheLandinthe
Middle.Albuquerque,NM:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,2009,pp.10-14.
Thompson,Jerry.“ChapterTwo,NoNightforMexicanTears”inCortina:Defending
theMexicanNameinTexas.TexasA&MUniversityPress,2007,2013,pp.34-66.
Thursday,July20th:TextbooksandMethodsaboutHistory
• AmericanHistoryinTextbooks[Leyva,Martinez]
• UnderstandingthePracticeofEthnohistory[Perales]
• LookingattheBorderlandsthroughthePrismofSettlerColonialism[Levya,
Martínez]
• IntroductiontoRecentMethodologicalTrendsinHistoricalPractice[Perales]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howcanunderstandingborderpeople
andtheirhistoryalter/reorientourconceptualunderstandingofUShistory?
[Martínez,Perales]
• TourofUTEPSpecialCollections
• MapsoftheChihuahuanDesertBorderlands(featuredinSpecialCollections)
• WorkshopCourse,UsingMusicasaLiteracyElementforEngagement:EPortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment[Varela,CreativeStudios
Team]
RequiredReadings
Hernández,KellyLytle.“Part Two: Transformation”inMigra!AHistoryoftheU.S.
BorderPatrol.UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2010,pp.101-168.
Mora, Pat. “Desert Women.” In Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle.
Albuquerque,NM:UniversityofNewMexicoPress,2009,pp.53-72.
Norwood, Vera and Janice Monk, Eds. “Chapter 6, Tradition and Mythology:
Signatures of Landscape in Chicana Literature” by Tey Diana Rebolledo and
“Chapter 7, ‘Peregrinas’ with Many Visions: Hispanic Women Artists of New
Mexico,SouthernColorado,andTexas”byMarianneL.StollerinTheDesertIsNo
Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art. University of Arizona
Press,1997,pp.96-124,125-145.
Friday,July21st:AnArtist’sSenseofPlaceviaHistoricalandLiterary
Narratives
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LookingatModern-Day,Bi-NationalSpaces[Dominguez,Perales]
ElPaso–CiudadJuárez,SanDiego/TijuanaMetroplexes[Martínez]
IntroductiontoSmeltertown[Perales]
RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howcanbegainmoreperspectives
aboutthecomplexprocessofidentityformation?[Dominguez,Perales]
LiteraryDialogues:ReadingtheNarrativesoftheChihuahuanBorderlands
[Rodríguez]
TourofCenterforInter-AmericanandBorderStudies(CIBS)[Heyman]
WorkshopCourse,CurriculumResources:E-PortfolioProjectandLesson
PlansDevelopment[Varela,CreativeStudiosTeam]
FocusQuestion:(2)Whatarethebasictheoriesandmethodsof
historiographyandnarratology?
LiteraryReadingbyPatMora[Mora]
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RequiredReadings
Gutierrez, Ramon and Elliott Young. “Transnationalizing Borderlands History.”
TheWesternHistoricalQuarterly,Vol.41,No.1(2010),pp.26-53.
Mora,Pat.“DearTeacher.”EnglishJournalVol.94,No.3(2005),pp.32-35.
Saturday,July22nd:IndependentStudy
• TourofElPasoMissionTrail(SanElizarioPresidioChapel,SocorroMission,
YsletaMission)
Sunday,July23rd:IndependentStudy
• E-PortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment[CreativeStudiosTeam]
• OptionalTriptoChamizalNationalMemorial(NationalParkService)
RequiredReadings
Adelman,JeremyandStephenAron.“FromBorderlandstoBorders:Empires,
Nation-States,andthePeoplesinbetweeninNorthAmericanHistory.”The
AmericanHistoricalReview,Vol.104,No.3(June1999),pp.814-841.
Staudt, Kathleen. “The Border, Performed in Films: Produced in both Mexico
andtheUSto‘BringouttheWorstinaCountry’.”JournalofBorderlandsStudies,
Vol.29,No.4,(November2014),pp.465-480.
Staudt, Kathleen. “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Border Research
Collaboration.” In Unchartered Terrains: New Directions in Border Research
Methods and Ethics. Anna Ochoa O’Leary, Colin Deeds, and Scott Whiteford, coeditors.UniversityofArizonaPress,2013,pp.53-68.
WEEKTWO:July23rd–July30th,2017
NarratologyandtheConstructionofIdentityandBinationalism
TellingtheStoriesoftheChihuahuanDesertBorderlands
GUIDINGQUESTIONS
Whatisnarratology?
Inhistory?
Inliterature?
Whatinfluencesthemakingandestablishingofborders?
Externalinterests?
Howdoesbinationalisminformborderpeople’sculturesandliteraryproduction?
Monday,July24th:TeachingNarrativesthroughHistoryandLiterature
• TheChihuahuanBorderlandsandDesertWomeninLiterature[Mora]
• PerformanceandLiteraryArts[Dominguez,Rodríguez]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howcandiversityofnarrativesinfluence
ourinterpretationsandperspectives?[Mora,Rodríguez]
• LiteraryDialogues:ReadingtheNarrativesoftheChihuahuanBorderlands
[Rodríguez]
• TourofUTEPCentennialMuseumandChihuahuanDesertGardens
• Attendlocaltheatreperformancethemeonborderlandsandidentity.
• WorkshopCourse,UsingthePopularCultureabouttheBorderlands:EPortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment[Varela,CreativeStudios
Team]
RequiredReadings
Perales, Monica. “On Borderlands/La Frontera: Gloria Anzaldúa and Twenty
Five Years of Research on Gender in the Borderlands.” Journal of Women’s
History,25thAnniversary Issue,Vol.25,No.4(Winter2013),pp.163-173.
Urrea,LuisAlberto.TheDevil’sHighway.BackBayBooks,2004.
Tuesday,July25th:BordersandPoliticsinAction
• ThePoliticsofNarratologyandBinationalism[Staudt]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howdoesbinationalisminformborder
people’scultures?[Martínez,Staudt]
• TourofU.S.CustomsandBorderProtectionStation
• E-PortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment[Varela,CreativeStudios
Team]
FocusQuestion:(3)Whataretheshiftingideologiesinthemakingoftwo
neighboringnations?
RequiredReadings
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, Ed. Selections from Literary El Paso. Texas Christian
UniversityPress,2010.
Urrea,LuisAlberto.TheDevil’sHighway.BackBayBooks,2004.
Wednesday,July26th:DocumentedBordersviaNarratology
• JournalismandPopularWritingabouttheChihuahuanBorderlands
[GonzálezdeBustamante]
• TheDocumentedBorderviaNarratology[GonzálezdeBustamante]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howdoesnarratologyinfluencethe
makingandestablishingofborders?[GonzálezdeBustamante,Staudt]
• LiteraryDialogues:ReadingtheNarrativesoftheChihuahuanBorderlands
[Rodríguez]
• FinalEditsofE-PortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment[Varela,
CreativeStudiosTeam]
RequiredReading
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, Ed. Selections from Literary El Paso. Texas Christian
UniversityPress,2010.
Thursday,July27th:NarrativesandInfluencesontheStage
• WomenandTheatreoftheChihuahuanBorderlands[Dominguez]
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Howcantheatreandnarratologies
engagestudentsinthepracticeofliteracies?[GonzálezdeBustamante,
Staudt]
• LiteraryDialogues:ReadingtheNarrativesoftheChihuahuanBorderlands
[Rodríguez]
• FinalEditsofE-PortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopment[Varela,
CreativeStudiosTeam]
RequiredReading
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, Ed. Selections from Literary El Paso. Texas Christian
UniversityPress,2010.
Friday,July28th:E-Portfolios
• RoundtableDiscussionofReadings:Whichhistoriesandliteraturesofthe
Chihuahuanborderlandshaveinfluencedourteachingandlearning?
[Martínez,Perales,Rodríguez]
• CompleteE-PortfolioProjectandLessonPlansDevelopmentforViewingby
Public[Varela,CreativeStudiosTeam]
• Dinnerandeveningforindependentexploration
RequiredReadings
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, Ed. Selections from Literary El Paso. Texas Christian
UniversityPress,2010.
Saturday,July29th:PresentationsandFarewell
• FarewellReception
• Showcase:DocumentingTalesoftheChihuahuanBorderlands[Summer
ScholarsandGonzálezdeBustamante]
• InstituteEvaluation
Sunday,July30th:DEPARTURE