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• 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?
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