THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: PENSAMIENTOS WITH ALFREDO SANTOS, RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORTS ON THE HISTORY OF ARTISTS IN TEXAS, ALFREDO SANTOS INTERVIEWS LORENZO CANO, AND THE STORY OF EMMA TENAYUCA AND THE PECAN SHELLER’S STRIKE OF 1937.
Hola mi gente! We got a lot of Texas history this week on Latinopia. We begins with Alfredo Santos and his Pensamientos. This week he highlights la pasionara, Emma Tenayuca who led the 1937 Pecan Sheller’s Strike in San Antonio. We accompany it with a Latinopia Event history video of the 1937 strike which includes an interview with Emma Tenayuca herself.
Also this week, we post an interview with acclaimed scholar and political activist Lorenzo Cano. In this reposting of an interview by Alfredo Santos that appears in this month’s La Voz newspaper, we learn about Cano’s a lifelong trajectory of civil rights activism and efforts on behalf of Mexican Americans in education.
In this week’s Tejano Report from Dr. Ricardo Romo, we learn of the early history of artists in what is today the state of Texas.
Enjoy your week on Latinopia!
Tia Tenopia