MACRI Talk: Emma Tenayuca & the Pecan Shellers Strike

Learn about Emma Tenayuca and the labor movement in San Antonio on the 85th anniversary of the start of the 1938 Pecan Shellers’ Strike.

This FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook https://bit.ly/MACRI-live & YouTube https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI

About our guest:

Dr. Gabriela González is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she teaches courses on the US-Mexico borderlands, Latinx history, women’s history and historical methods. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. history from Stanford University in 2005 and is a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow. She is the author of Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights published by Oxford University Press in July 2018.