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SUMMARY:Alonso S. Perales: Civil Rights Trailblazer Traveling Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:A traveling exhibit on the life and legacy of Alonso S. Perales (1898-1960)\, civil rights activist\, public intellectual\, and US diplomat. Drawing from Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco’s recently published biography of Perales\, his first comprehensive biography\, this exhibit will introduce Perales to a new generation. \nThe exhibit will be on display from Saturday\, June 29\, 2024 to Saturday\, October 19\, 2024. \nThe exhibit gallery will be open Monday through Friday\, 10 AM—NOON and 1 – 4 PM\, or by appointment. \nThis program is made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! \nAbout Dr. Orozco’s book: \nPioneer of Mexican American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales  \nIn this wide-ranging biography\, historian Cynthia Orozco examines the life and work of one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the twentieth century. Alonso S. Perales was born in Alice\, Texas\, in 1898; he became an attorney\, leading civil rights activist\, author\, and US diplomat. \nPerales was active in promoting and seeking equality for “La Raza” in numerous arenas. In 1929\, he founded the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)\, the most important Latino civil rights organization in the United States. He encouraged the empowerment of Latinos at the voting box and sought to pass state and federal legislation banning racial discrimination. He fought for school desegregation in Texas and initiated a movement for more and better public schools for Mexican-descent people in San Antonio. \nA complex and controversial figure\, Alonso S. Perales is now largely forgotten\, and this first-ever comprehensive biography reveals his work and accomplishments to a new generation of scholars of Mexican-American history and Hispanic civil rights. This volume is divided into four parts: the first is organized chronologically and examines his childhood to his role in World War I\, the beginnings of his activism in the 1920s\, and the founding of LULAC. The second section explores his impact as an attorney\, politico\, public intellectual\, Pan-American ideologue\, and US diplomat. Perales’ private life is examined in the third part and scholars’ interpretations of his legacy in the fourth. \nAbout Dr. Orozco: \nDr. Cynthia E. Orozco is an award-winning best-selling author\, public historian\, and educator. Teaching first at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque she joined Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso where she recently received the ENMU-Ruidoso President’s Award for Teaching and Service. She is the co-editor of Mexican Americans in Texas History\, an associate editor of Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia\, and served as Research Associate at the Texas State Historical Association where she wrote 80 articles on Texas history for the New Handbook of Texas. \nA two-time Ford Foundation recipient\, Governor Bill Richardson appointed her to the New Mexico Humanities Council. The Texas State Historical Association named Orozco a fellow in 2012 and New Mexico LULAC named her Educator of the Year in 2012. She served as campaign manager for Leo Martinez for Congress in the early 2000s.
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LOCATION:MACRI Visitor Center\, 2123 Buena Vista St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
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SUMMARY:MACRI Talk: Summer Road Trip - A Trip in Time to Los Angeles’ Nayarit Restaurant
DESCRIPTION:Join the last stop in our virtual summer road trip to learn about Mexican American history around the country! 🚗 \nThe MACRI Summer Road Trip concludes in Los Angeles’s Nayarit restaurant with a VIRTUAL MACRI Talk featuring Dr. Natalia Molina. Learn about how the Nayarit fostered community and a sense of belonging for its diverse and largely immigrant clientele and workers. \nOur FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook at https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI & YouTube at https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI on Tuesday\, August 13\, 2024\, at 6 PM Central Time. Just click on your preferred site to join the presentation at 6 PM CT! \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! To learn more about future MACRI events and how to make a donation\, please visit www.somosMACRI.org. Gracias! \n  \n🌟 ABOUT OUR GUEST \nNatalia Molina researches and writes about the interconnected histories of race\, place\, gender\, culture\, and citizenship. She is the author of three award-winning books: How Race Is Made in America: Immigration\, Citizenship\, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts; Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles\, 1879-1940; and\, most recently\, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community\, which the Los Angeles Times includes on its “Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf.” A Place at the Nayarit chronicles the lives of immigrant restaurant workers\, including Molina’s grandmother\, who became placemakers\, nurturing and feeding their communities. She is at work on a new book\, The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Workers\, and has enjoyed writing for the LA Times\, Washington Post\, San Diego Union-Tribune\, and elsewhere. Molina is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Dean’s Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California\, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. \n  \n🌟 ABOUT THE TALK \nIn her recent book\, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community\, historian Natalia Molina traces the life’s work of her grandmother\, remembered by all who knew her as Doña Natalia––a generous\, reserved\, and capable woman. Doña Natalia immigrated alone from Mexico to L.A.\, adopted two children\, and ran a successful business. She also sponsored\, housed\, and employed dozens of other immigrants\, encouraging them to lay claim to a city long characterized by anti-Latino racism. Together\, the employees and customers of the Nayarit maintained ties to their old homes while providing one another safety and support. \nThe Nayarit was more than a popular eating spot: it was an urban anchor for a robust community. In this gathering space\, ethnic Mexican workers and customers connected with their patria chica (their “small country”). That meant connecting with distinctive tastes\, one another\, and the city they now called home. Through deep research and vivid storytelling\, Molina follows restaurant workers from the kitchen and the front of the house across borders and through the decades. These people’s stories illuminate the many facets of the immigrant experience: immigrants’ complex networks of family and community and the small but essential pleasures of daily life\, as well as cross-currents of gender and sexuality and pressures of racism and segregation. The Nayarit was a local landmark\, popular with both Hollywood stars and restaurant workers from across the city and beloved for its fresh\, traditionally prepared Mexican food. But as Molina argues\, it was also\, and most importantly\, a place where ethnic Mexicans and other Latinx L.A. residents could step into the fullness of their lives\, nourishing themselves and one another. A Place at the Nayarit is a stirring exploration of how racialized minorities create a sense of belonging. \nViews and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of the MACRI\, its staff\, or funders.
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