History, Race and Landscapes

Lisbeth Haas, Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Read chapter 5. This is on traditional electronic reserve as well as paper reserve. You will also find this as an e-book by going to the Cal Poly Library Website and typing in the title. Follow the links to “chapter 5: Racial and Ethnic identities and the Politics of Space.”

Sign up for discussion leading.

Ramón Gutiérrez, "Pueblos and Spanish in the Southwest," in Carolyn Merchant, Major Problems in American Environmental History, (hereafter cited as “Merchant), p. 45-53.

"A Spanish Explorer Views the Pueblos, 1580,"and "Spanish Explorers Observe Pueblo Irrigation, 1592," in Merchant, p. 34--37.

Video: Segments of Surviving Columbus

Pre colonial Indigenous Landscapes, part 2: the Northeast

Neil Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643, chapter 1: “Farmers and Hunters,” p. 13-49.

Early Modern European ideas about Nature.

Clive Ponting, "Ways of Thought," in A Green History of the World: The Environmental Collapse of Great Civilizations (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1992), 141-160.

Carolyn Merchant, "The Death of Nature, Women and Ecology in the Scientific Revolution," in Earthcare, Women and the Environment, p. 75-90

Calvin Martin, "Micmacs and French in the Northeast" in Merchant, p. 54-64.
A Jesuit Missionary Recalls Micmac Hunting Ritual (1691),"
Carole Blackburn, Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America (Montreal: Queens-McGill University Press, 2000), chapter three, p. 42-69

Colonial Landscapes, part 2: The English and American Indians

Jean O'Brien, “Changing Conditions of Life for Indian Women in Eighteenth Century New England,” in Albert Hurtado and Peter Iverson, Major Problems in American Indian History, 149-160.

William Cronon, “Bounding the Land,” in Changes in the Land, p. 54-81.

Don Mitchell, "Marked Bodies: Patriotism, Race and Landscape," In Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 83-109

Film: The Wilderness and the West

Review for Mid Term Exam

In class mid term exam

Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart, vii-151.

Film: Selections from Cadillac Desert: Mercy of Nature

California Agricultural landscapes, part 2

Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart, 152-327.

Film: Chicano, Episode 2: The Struggle in the Fields

Culture and Landscape, part 1

Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places, p. 1-36, Optional: p. 37-70.

Culture and Landscape, part 2

Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places, p.105-149, Optional: Basso, p. 71-104.

film: In Light of Reverence

Culture and Landscape, part 3

Darryl B. Wilson, The Morning the Sun Went Down, 1-84

Film: Salmon on the Run

Environmental Racism and Justice, part 1

Luke W. Cole and Shelia R. Foster, From the Ground Up, pages 1-53.

Film: Toxic Racism or Return of Navajo Boy

Wilson Paper Due

March 8:

Environmental Racism and Justice, part 3

Luke W. Cole and Shelia R. Foster, From the Ground Up, pages 103-165.

Final exam review