"No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed": Dr. Cynthia Orozco on the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, part of our summer series The Other Side of Freedom: USA at 250, we sit down with historian Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco, author of No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement — the first scholarly history of LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens.Dr. Orozco is the National LULAC Historian and Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at Eastern New Mexico University. She is also the author of Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist and Pioneer of Mexican American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales.We talk about the origins of the Mexican American civil rights movement in Texas, the segregation signs that gave this book its title, the role of gender and the women written out of early movement history, and the limits of who that movement saw and who it left invisible — including Afro-Mexican American and Afro-Mexicana Tejana communities.As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this conversation asks a question at the heart of our summer series: freedom for whom, and on whose terms?Learn more about Dr. Orozco's work: https://cynthiaorozco.com/Book: No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (University of Texas Press)#RethinkingFreedom #USAat250 #MexicanAmericanHistory #LULAC #CivilRights #TexasHistory #ChicanaStudiesSupport the show