By Edward Shore Dr. Peniel Joseph, an accomplished scholar, teacher, and a leading public voice on race in the United States, holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin. This past January, Dr. Joseph inaugurated the Center for the Study of Race […]
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 […]
East Avenue
Before Interstate Highway 35 divided Austin, East Avenue was the line that separated white and non-white Austin. Whites lived west of the East Avenue and African Americans and Mexican Americans occupied the area to the east. But before that, before the 1930s, black Austinites resided in enclaves throughout the city, says Eric Tang, Associate Professor of […]