HISTORY 5353 GREATER SOUTHWEST CONTESTED …

[Pages:6]HISTORY 5353?GREATER SOUTHWEST: CONTESTED FREEDOMS AND CONTESTED WORK

TAYLOR-MURPHY 110 THURSDAY ? 6:30-9:20 PM

Dr. Jessica R. Pliley pliley@txstate.edu 228 Taylor Murphy

Dr. John McKiernan Gonz?lez jrm259@txstate.edu 214 Brazos Hall

OFFICE HOURS: TBA

COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES

History 5353 is organized around the vexing question of labor in the American Southwest. The course is intended to compliment a conference, "Slavery in the Modern Southwest: The Persistence of Forced Labor," organized by Dr. Pliley and Dr. McKiernan Gonz?lez and sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Southwest that will be held October 25-26, 2019. Sitting at the crossroads of empires, nation states, and migration streams, the American Southwest has long been a site of labor exploitation, and it continues to be a home to modern slavery. Since the 2000 passage of the Trafficking victims Protection Act and the formation and adoption of the United Nations' Palermo Protocol, human trafficking and modern slavery has captured the attention of human rights activists, academics, jurists, labor organizers, and many others. Reports that the number of people caught in conditions of modern slavery continue to rise, as do the types of interventions to fight modern slavery. At the same time scholars of contemporary trafficking note that trafficking correlates to immigration restriction. Consequently, the Borderlands of the Southwest provide a fertile ground for interrogating modern slavery. This symposium seeks to take the global phenomenon of modern slavery and trafficking, and ground it in the Southwest, considering the ways that labor migration, immigration restriction, border violence, and economic inequality combine to produce the soil that can give rise to modern slavery.

The major topics covered in this course are: - Complicated and competing notions of freedom - The role of the state and of corporations in labor exploitation - The ways that migration streams source intimate labor - How contract and policy shapes the labor market - How the imaginary of rescue shapes the experience of rescue

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Regular attendance and thoughtful, prepared, and respectful participation are required features of this course.

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This course has two purposes. First, it aims at teaching students how to engage in discussion of other scholars' work. Second, the course is intended to offer students an opportunity to learn the necessary skills that historians use when developing research projects.

On weeks when students do not have a major assignment due, they will be required to turn in a one-page pr?cis that describes the author's main argument of the book or article under discussion.

ASSESSMENT

Participation (40%) One-Page Pr?cis (15%) Trends within the Field Essay (15%)* Panel Proposal Essay (15%)* Research Proposal (15%)*

Failure to turn in any one of the major papers (indicated above with an *) will result in failure of the course.

Participation The core part of your grade will come from your participation in class discussions. What does participation mean? It has three components: demonstration of having completed the assigned reading; demonstration of having read and assessed your peers' work; and, participating thoughtfully and respectfully in the class discussion.

One-Page Pr?cis Each week that we meet to discuss assigned readings, you will be responsible for writing a one page paper that identifies the scholar's argument, summarizes the material, and states the significance of the work.

Trends within the Field Essay This essay asks you to identify the major developing trends within Southwestern labor history in 5 to 6 pages. To do this, you will need to consult the catalogues of the leading publishers of Southwestern history, the programs of the leading conferences that feature Southwest History, and the top academic journals in the field.

Panel Proposal In this assignment you will propose a fictitious panel on the topic of your choosing from Southwestern labor history. You will need each of the following elements (inspired from the AHA's session proposal guidelines): ? Session title (of no more than 20 words) ? Session abstract (up to 500 words) ? Short session abstract for the meeting app (up to 50 words) ? Paper or presentation titles (if any) ? Abstract or description for your presentation (up to 300 words). ? Short abstract or description for your presentation for the meeting app (up to 50 words)

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? Biographical paragraph or CV summary (up to 250 words) for each participant (do not plagiarize from their website)

? Correct e-mail address for each participant ? Affiliation, city, state, and country for each participant ? Chair and commentator for the session

Research Proposal In 1500 words you will construct a research proposal for a future project, providing a literature review, a methodology and research plan, and expected findings.

Formatting guidelines for all papers o 1" margins o double spaced o paginated o Times New Roman font o Chicago Manual of Style citation method with footnotes o Active voice with few typos

Course Bibliography:

Burke, Flannery. A Land Apart: The Southwest and The Nation in the Twentieth Century. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017.

Daniel, Pete. The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

Fukushima, Annie Isabel. Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US. Stanford University Press, 2019.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Lim, Julian. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands. UNC Press Books, 2017.

O'Connell Davidson, Julia. Modern Slavery: The Margins of Slavery. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. O'Neill, Colleen. Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century. University

Press of Kansas, 2005. Parre?as, Rhacel. Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic work. 2nd Edition. Stanford

University Press, 2015. Salinas, Cristina. Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth

Century. University of Texas Press, 2018. Smith, Stacey L., Freedoms Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and

Reconstruction. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 2013. Urban, Andrew. Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long

Nineteenth Century. NYU Press, 2017. Vimalassery, Manu. Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Peoples, Racial Aliens, and the Transcontinental

Railroad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Zlolniski, Christian. Made in Baja: The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers Behind Mexico's

Transnational Agricultural Boom. University of California Press, 2019.

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This course will use all of the following books. Note, there are numerous essays assigned that are listed in the week-by-week outline that follows.



The trends, panel proposal, and research proposal must be submitted to .

Class ID: Password: 5353

Class Schedule

Week 1: (Aug 26): What is the Southwest or Why the Southwest? ? Burke, Flannery. A Land Apart: The Southwest and The Nation in the Twentieth Century. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017.

Week 2: (Sep 2) What is Labor? What is Trafficking? What is Slavery? ? O'Connell Davidson, Julia. Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. ? Sanchez, George. "Race, Nation, and Culture in Recent Immigration Studies." Journal of American Ethnic History (1999): 66-84. Posted on TRACS. ? Patterson, Orlando. "Trafficking, Gender and Slavery: Past and Present." In The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary. Ed. Jean Allain. London: Oxford, 2012. And the response by Kevin Bales, and Patterson's rejoinder. Pages 322-374. Posted on TRACS.

Week 3: (Sep 9): Complicating Freedom ? Smith, Stacey L., Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 2013.

Week 4: (Sep 16) Complicating Freedom ? Daniel, Pete. The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

Week 5: (Sep 23): The State and Corporate Capitalist Colonialism ? Vimalassery, Manu. Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Peoples, Racial Aliens, and the Transcontinental Railroad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019.

Week 6: (Sep 30): The State and Corporate Capitalist Colonialism ? Chase, Robert T. "We are Not Slaves: Rethinking the Rise of the Carceral State through the Lens of the Prisoners' Rights Movement." Journal of American History 102, no. 1 (June 2015): 73-86. ? Thompson, Heather Ann. "Rethinking Working-Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labor History of Inmates and Guards." Labor 8, no 3 (2011): 15-45.

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? Janssen, Volker. "California Wildfires Have Been Fought By Prisoners Since WWII." :

? Janssen, Volker. "When the `Jungle' Met the Forest: Public Work, Civil Defense, and the Prison Camps in Postwar California." Journal of American History 96, no. 3 (2009): 702-726.

Week 7: (Oct 7): Migrating Workers and Intimate Labor ? Lim, Julian. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands. UNC Press Books, 2017.

Week 8: (Oct 14): Migrating Workers and Intimate Labor ? Urban, Andrew. Brokering servitude: Migration and the politics of domestic labor during the long nineteenth century. NYU Press, 2017.

Week 9: (Oct 21) Week of the Conference--Possibly cancel classes

Week 10: (Oct 28): Migrating Workers and Intimate Labor ? Parre?as, Rhacel. Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic work. Stanford University Press, 2015.

Week 11: (Nov 4): Contracting Freedom ? O'Neill, Colleen. Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century. University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Week 12: (Nov 11): Contracting Freedom ? Salinas, Cristina. Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century. University of Texas Press, 2018.

Week 13: (Nov 18): Contracting Freedom ? Zlolniski, Christian. Made in Baja: The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers Behind Mexico's Transnational Agricultural Boom. University of California Press, 2019.

Week 14: (Nov 25) Thanksgiving week

Week 15: (Dec 2): After Rescue ? Fukushima, Annie Isabel. Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US. Stanford University Press, 2019.

Week 16; (Dec 9): The Rescue Industrial Complex ? Elizabeth Bernstein, "Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36, no. 1 (2010): 45-71. ? Elizabeth Bernstein and Elena Shih, "The Erotics of Authenticity: Sex Trafficking and `Reality Tourism' in Thailand," Social Politics 21, no. 3 (2014): 430-460. ? Elena Shih, "Not in My `Backyard Abolitionism': Vigilante Rescue against American Sex Trafficking," Sociological Perspectives 59, no. 1 (2016): 66-90.

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? Anne Elizabeth Moore, Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking (Portland, OR: Microcosm Publishers, 2016). Available for little money on Amazon's Kindle.

? Melissa Gira Grant, "Beyond Strange Bedfellows: How the `War on Trafficking' was Made to Unite the Left and Right," The Public Eye (Summer 2018).

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