Houston Community College’s Dr. Samantha Rodriguez to speak on Tejanas/Tejanos championing racial and gender liberation in fight for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston.
She’s credited with co-authoring the award-winning book, Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas, and served as a research assistant, oral historian and interview processor for the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). On Thursday, Oct. 26, Dr. Samantha Rodriguez, History and Humanities Professor with Houston Community College, will give an evening lecture titled “Forging Race and Gender Power in Houston” as the final event scheduled for Del Mar College’s observance of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Houston Community College’s Dr. Samantha Rodriguez
The free lecture begins at 7 p.m. in Wolfe Recital Hall located in the Fine Arts Center Music Building on the Heritage Campus at 101 Baldwin Blvd. (78404). Get online directions and campus map. The public is invited to attend. This event is sponsored by the Social Sciences Department’s History Program, the College’s Mexican American Studies Program and the DMC Cultural Programs Series.
For more information, contact Dr. Dawson Barrett, DMC Associate Professor of History/History Program Coordinator, at 361-698-1630 or dbarrett2@delmar.edu.