Dear Friends of the Center of Greater Southwestern Studies at UT Arlington: This is Christopher Conway, Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies….
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by Erin Murrah-Mandril, UT Arlington. Courtesy University of Texas at San Antonio Special Collections. Adina de Zavala was dubbed “the angel of the Alamo” when she barricaded herself in the Alamo building in 1908 to…
By Christopher Conway, UT Arlington. Mexican farmers plead their case in The Magnificent Seven (1960). In the middle of the twentieth century, Hollywood was a powerful force in the everyday lives of Mexican moviegoers. The…
Fronteras celebrates the Southwestern photographs of one of the New Deal’s greatest visual ethnographers. by Christopher Conway and Barbara S. Moore, UT Arlington. Selecting seeds in hardware store. San Augustine, Texas. Courtesy of the Library…
“The idea is that time can be colonized just like land. By ‘time’ I don’t necessarily mean the length of a day, but the way that the passing of time is experienced and the way…
