CSP 67 Race, Medicine, and Health in the Borderlands

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the significance of medicine and health to racialized historical processes of colonization, state formation, and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands over the last 250 years. Subjects range from community health cultures to health care systems and topics include curanderismo, epidemics, carceral healthcare, military medicine, migrant and farmworker health, reproductive justice, environmental health, and grassroots health collectives and movements. We will engage primary documents as well as works in the fields of Native American Studies, Chicanx Studies, anthropology, history, fiction, and film.