207 - Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico with Kathy Sosa and Dr. Jennifer Speed

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English - June 02, 2021 18:05 - 55 minutes - 45.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 262 ratings
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Listeners this week we're back with Kathy Sosa and Jennifer Speed.

Kathy Sosa explores the artistic expression of mestizaje, the blending of peoples, races, ethnicities, languages, ideas, habits and cultures that characterizes the Texas-Mexico border region that has been her home since childhood.

Dr. Jennifer Speed is a native Texan and a historian with a special interest in biography and storytelling. Her work ranges in space and time from medieval Spain to early twentieth century Mexico and the U.S.

During this episode we talked about:

What sparked the curiousity to create their book "Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico"How history is written by men and it was important for the stories to be told by womenThe creation of this book, how long it took and the lessons they learned.The Malinche, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Nahui Olin

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Timestamps:

06:11 - How the idea of the book came about

10:31 - This isn't in Texas' history books

12:51 - San Antonio as a majority-minority city

16:30 - Why the book took longer

18:10 - The mixed genre of the book

20:39 - Assist people to tell their stories

21:57 - History is dominated by men

28:28 - The process of making an anthology

32:48 - Selecting the subjects

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