work32

• Read your Intro to Chapter 3 "Life in the Borderlands"

• Read your assigned essay in Chapter 3 ◦ Valerio-Jimenez, "Getting Un-Hitched

along the Rio Grande • Read Disrupting the Master Narrative: Mexican

Americans in the Borderlands • Choose one of the questions below to respond

to and reply to one classmate's post who answered a different question than you did in your post. Be prepared to discuss all in class. ◦ What is the master narrative of US history

and according to the author what are the consequences of this narrative? Do you agree with the author? Why or why not?

◦ How and why did the identities of Mexicans and Mexican Americans evolve in the borderlands?

◦ What challenges and successes did Mexican and Mexican Americans experience in the borderlands?

◦ Provide three examples of how the master narrative is disrupted by studying history through the perspectives of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the borderlands?