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Zaragosa Vargas

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United States Labor History


Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1984

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Modern U.S. History
  • Ninteenth and twentieth century labor history
  • Chicano history
  • Ethnic studies

Selected Publications

  • History of Mexican Americans in the United States (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2005)
  • Major Problems in Mexican American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
  • Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 (University of California Press, 1993)

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • History 11A: History of America's Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Age of Conquest to 1900
  • History 164PR: Proseminar of the History of America's Racial Minorities
  • History 167CA: History of the American Working Class, 1800-1900
  • History 167CB: History of the American Working Class, 1900-present
  • History 167CP: Proseminar in American Working Class History
  • History 168A: History of the Chicanos (A)
  • History 168B: History of the Chicanos (B)
  • History 168LA: History of Chicano Workers from the Nineteenth Century to the Early 1930s
  • History 168LB: History of Chicano Workers from the Late 1930s to the Present Era
  • History 168LP: Proseminar on the History of Twentieth-Century Chicano and Chicana Workers
  • History 201AM Advanced Historical Literature: America
  • History 268A-B: Seminar on Ethnicity and Community