Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area D3 · CSU GE Area D · CSU GE Area C2Description54 hours lecture per term. This course examines the Chicana/o experience from the Mesoamerican era through the U.S.–Mexico War (1848). Students analyze historical themes through settler colonialism, racialization, decoloniality, and hemispheric Indigenous frameworks, while integrating insights from Indigenous feminisms and Chicana feminist thought. The course engages critical scholarship by David Carrasco (Mesoamerican religions and cosmologies), Gerardo Aldana (science and knowledge production in Maya societies), Deena González and Antonia Castañeda (gender and colonial violence), Emma Pérez (decolonial imaginary and Chicana feminist history), Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands theory), and Kelly Lytle Hernández (settler colonialism and histories of conquest). Topics include Indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations and epistemologies; the impacts of Spanish and U.S. conquest and colonization; mestizaje and racial identity formation; the African presence in New Spain; gender, sexuality, and women’s roles in colonial societies; Indigenous, African, and Afro-Indigenous resistance; Spanish missions and presidios in the borderlands; Mexican independence and the abolition of slavery; and the U.S.–Mexico War and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Students will analyze cultural, philosophical, and artistic contributions such as Indigenous cosmologies, codices, oral traditions, corridos, and resistance literature as central to understanding the human condition. The course emphasizes how histories of colonization and resistance shaped Chicana/o identities and contributed to ongoing struggles for justice, liberation, and self-determination.(Degree Credit) (CSU) (UC) AA GE, CSU GE, IGETC, Cal-GETC 