By Valerie Ann Martínez Voces is an ongoing collaborative effort between UT students, faculty, and community participants to record and preserve the history of Latina and Latinos living during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Since its origin in 1999, the project has collected nearly 1,000 interviews documenting the experiences of Latina […]
Refusing to Forget
By Edward Shore White terror and racial strife inflamed the Texas-Mexico border at the turn of the twentieth century. Historians estimate that police officers, Texas Rangers, vigilante groups, and ordinary civilians alike massacred between several hundred and five-thousand people of Mexican descent residing in the southern Texas borderlands between 1910 and 1920. The victims included […]