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"In 1919 legislative investigation, prompted by the Lege’s only Latino lawmaker, Hanson was accused of using his role to cover up Ranger misdeeds." Read more about Hanson's role in the Porvenir massacre and a shoutout to @MonicaMnzMtz' s work: buff.ly/4ffmWGk
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BORDERLANDS/LATINX STUDIES FOLKS: If you need a warm and generative venue to workshop works-in-progress this coming AY, please consider submitting a proposal to the BLS Seminar at the @NewberryLibrary. Proposals DUE on 06/7! @Em_AguilarPhD @Maruchatrucha
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enjoyed talking liberal education, lifetime career mobility, @Refusing2Forget, and US and Texas history wars with @JobLiberalArts. Give it a listen! bit.ly/4cj0bjq
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If you’ve ever wondered by Texas border communities seem reluctant to support state operations against migrants, it’s because many long-established Texas families remember when the state used Texas Rangers against them. An exhibit in San Antonio is now telling the story.
excellent coverage of Bazan-Longoria family and exhibit "Life and Death on the Border." Video story has wonderful images and captures the family's story over generations more fully than does the text /1. ksat.com/news/local/2024/03/…
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Incredibly grateful to have received the 2024 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award for Raza Schools. Such an honor. Thank you. ✊🏽
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Mientras Juan N Cortina tenia comunicación abierta con Porfirio Diaz en 1876, por un momento tambien lo hacia con Juan Maria Iglesias y llego hasta reunirse con el reconicido Gral Julian Quiroga, quien fuese capturado y pasado por las armas por Porfirsitas poco después.
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On #Fronteras:
Life & Death on the Border, a traveling panel exhibit organized by @Refusing2Forget, is at the @OLLUlibrary.
If you have items/photos/docs related to the matanza, you can lend them to the exhibit. Find out how, and hear more here:
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Thank you JAH & Process! It was great reflecting upon my article and speaking to broader audiences about what led me to the topic of gendered violence, archival research, & more ❤️
New post alert! @soniahistoria (@historyTAMU, @TAMUArtSci) on her article from the September edition of the JAH. She examines how "gendered histories of state violence [are] fertile ground for future research" for both academic and public audiences.
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I’m fortunate to be in SA for the @Librotraficante-hosted Latino author series @GuadalupeCAC with @MonicaMnzMtz & John Morán González of @Refusing2Forget.
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Y'all! The U.S. Army is pardoning the Black soldiers from the 1917 Camp Logan Mutiny aka the Houston (Race) Riot. tiktok.com/t/ZT8DLK5gr/
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Cool let's look into what exactly his Texas ranger great great grandfather really was up to in 1870 @Refusing2Forget
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Celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth with @UTAustin!
Find events, UT Press books, art shows + more that celebrate the impact of Hispanic + Latinx culture in this roundup from @UT_DDCE that features @polit_gabriela, Martha Menchaca + @Refusing2Forget! ❤️ ⤵️
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The official launch of the Jovita Idar Quarter frm #USMint #HerQuarters Gracias San Antonio @utsa What an honor. Jovita Idar’s blood runs in nosotras. Never forget that as a working journalist she defended her newspaper from the Texas Rangers who came to shut it down. No se fue!
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Happy Labor Day. Jovita Idar and family were advocates for equal rights and access to education. She was an advocate for female equal rights as well. People should learn about her and the history of Mexican Americans. Please sign and share.
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My paternal grandmother, Maria Garcia Vale, born and raised in Roma, Texas (Starr County) told me this story many times. We know our Mexican American history with the @TxDPS Texas Rangers in the South Texas Border Region. #txlege
#LosRinches #LaHoraDeSangre #Tejanos #Fronterizos – at San Antonio, TX
#OTD in 1918, Texas Rangers illegally held and tortured Jesus Villareal of Copita, TX on his way to his niece’s wedding near Roma. /1
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We are muy excited about all the Jovita Idar events coming up in just two weeks! We're painting a mural! We're having a symposium (in-person and live-streaming)! We're having an awesome family day celebration at Market Square and Centro de Artes!
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From El Paso to Brownsville today is a dark and a deadly day in history. Call it what it is - domestic terrorism fueled by white supremacy
#OTD in 1915, Desiderio Flores, and his two sons, Desiderio Flores Jr., and Antonio Flores were shot and killed by Texas Rangers at their ranch in Paso Real, approximately 30 miles outside of Brownsville. /1
ALT A 1915 postcard titles “Dead Mexican Bandits” shows three Texas Rangers on horseback, gazing at the bodies of Jesús García, Mauricio García, Amado Muñoz, and Muñoz's brother, killed in retaliation for their alleged participation in an attack on the King Ranch. Photograph: El Paso Times, https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2016/01/16/museum-exhibit-explores-borders-bloody-past/78743194/.
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RTF member @ccarmonawriter discusses Jovita Idár & the forthcoming anthology that will pay tribute to her.
Fronteras: ‘The Chicana Lois Lane’ — Anthology collects works inspired by the life of activist and journalist Jovita Idár | TPR tpr.org/podcast/fronteras/20…
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An important part of this history is that it gave birth to this banger: youtu.be/M9Jp4p8_fH8
#OTD on June 14, 1901 Gregorio Cortéz killed 2 Texas law officers in self-defense and led Texas Rangers on a nearly 10 day chase through south central Texas. Cortez was regarded as a "bandit” by the law but became a hero to many Mexican Americans. /1
ALT https://www.lavacacountytoday.com/index.php/lifestyle/story-gregorio-Cortéz