Title: Week 10 Overview and Inquiry
Course: The American West: Power, Place, and Memory > Section: Week 10 · October 26–30, 2026 — Homecoming Week: Racial Regimes, Labor, and Border Violence, 1880–1920

WEEK 10 · INQUIRY MODULE

Week 10: Racial Regimes, Labor, and Border Violence, 1880–1920

How did law, labor markets, and public narrative make race in the modern West?

Dates: October 26–30, 2026 — Homecoming Week

Focus

- Chinese exclusion and anti-Asian violence
- Black western communities and Jim Crow
- Mexican Revolution, migration, and Texas border violence
- Women’s politics and settler citizenship

Before class

1. Read: American Yawp, chapters 18–20 selected sections.
2. Open and inspect the linked primary-source collection(s). Record one source, one context question, and one limitation.
3. Scholarship lens: Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans (2022), or Monica Muñoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You (2018), selected excerpt.

Primary-source portals

- Chronicling America historic newspapers
- Refusing to Forget educational resources

Tuesday/Thursday meeting plan

Date | Status | Plan
Tuesday, October 27 | Class | Racial formation through law, labor, migration, and border violence.
Thursday, October 29 | Class | Newspaper comparison, corroboration, ethical quotation, and Source Lab 3 transfer.

Walkout Day is Friday, October 30; it does not cancel a T/Th meeting. Source Lab 3 is due Friday, October 30.

After class

Deliverable: Source Reasoning Lab 3 and Reading & Reasoning Check 8.

- I can answer the weekly inquiry with a contestable claim.
- I can name at least two pieces of evidence and explain their limits.
- I can identify an interpretation that my evidence supports, complicates, or challenges.