Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Latino Bookstore
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
What is the story of Texas from the perspective of women? What does it mean to be a Tejana?
Join MACRI and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center for a special conversation about Tejana identity, art, and resilience, the subject of ¡Somos Tejanas! Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas, featuring the book’s editors, Norma E. Cantú and Jody A. Marín, and other Tejana contributors to the book.
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 6 - 8 PM
Guadalupe Latino Bookstore
1300 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, Texas 78207
Books will be available for purchase. There will be a book signing after the talk.
MACRI'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, Spurs Give, and individual donors like you! Gracias!
As always, views and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of the MACRI, its staff, or funders.
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About the talk
In ¡Somos Tejanas!, editors Norma E. Cantú and Jody A. Marín bring together contemporary Tejanx writers who provide firsthand accounts of their experience of identity, enriching the field of Tejanx studies through an encounter with gender and sexuality. The contributions, including personal and scholarly essays, poems, criticism, and artworks, explore the heterogeneity of Tejana identity and the sociopolitical movements, stories, dances, music, and athletic feats that mark Tejanidad. Authors contemplate the history and memory of segregation in Texas, the struggles of surviving the unnatural disaster and blackouts of 2021 amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the drug-war violence and ever-tightening immigration restrictions that strangle a transborder way of life shared by millions.
