ON DISPLAY:
September 16 – October 31, 2024
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
In celebration of the Hispanic Heritage Month, Northwest Vista College’s Mexican American Studies program is hosting a “Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920” which examines the historical period in Texas known as the matanza and the resilient spirit of the Mexican American community that endured state-sanctioned violence along the Texas-Mexico border.
Calls for justice helped launch a civil rights movement. This exhibition, originally produced by the Bullock Texas State History Museum in collaboration with the nonprofit Refusing to Forget, contains photographs, court documents, letters, and special collection artifacts. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibit do not necessarily represent those of the American Historical Association or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Refusing to Forget
To learn more about the history of anti-Mexican racial violence of the early twentieth century in Texas: refusingtoforget.org
Documentaries
PBS’s “Porvenir, Texas,” available through our library – https://nvc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=95142&xtid=215258
“Border Bandits” https://youtu.be/sbss7-INNiY. Kirby Warnock, the filmmaker, has made the film available for free.
NVC Mexican American Studies program
The Mexican American Studies program led the NVC curation.
Contact Dr. Corina González-Stout for details:
cgonzalez-stout@alamo.edu or nvc-mas@alamo.edu.
Save the dates!
Scheduled events augmenting the exhibit:
Opening reception and plática with the founding members of Refusing to Forget in MZH Innovation Center on September 16 at 12:30.
Film screening of PBS’s Porvenir, Texas on September 19 in the PCA theater, 11:00-12:30.
Film screening of Border Bandits. This screening will be held in MZH Innovation Center at 12:30-2:00 on October 9. Refreshments provided.