Crossing the line: Mexican children making the border 1900-1930

Authors

Yolanda Chavez Leyva, University of Texas at El Paso

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Description

Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva is a Chicana/ fronteriza historian and writer who was born and raised on the border. She is of Rarámuri descent and honors her grandmother Canuta Ruacho. She is the Director of the Institute of Oral History and Associate Professor in the Department of History at UTEP. She is also the lead historian for the first-ever Bracero Museum (funded by the Mellon Foundation) slated to open in Socorro, Texas in 2024. She has spent her life listening to and now documenting the lives of people who live on la frontera. Professor Leyva specializes in border history, public history, and Chicana history. She is co-founder of Museo Urbano, a museum of the streets that highlights fronterize history by taking it where people are-- from museums to the actual streets of El Paso. She came to academia after a decade of social work in the Black and Brown communities of east Austin, with a desire to make academia and especially history relevant and useful to people. She is the recipient of the National Council on Public History "Best Public History Project Award" and the American Historical Association Herbert Feis Award that recognizes "distinguished contributions to public history." She has curated, and co-curated, many museums exhibits with her students.

Physical Description

PDF, 1 page

Publication Date

9-1-2023

Keywords

borderlands, history, Chicana, public history

Disciplines

History

Recommended Citation

Chavez Leyva, Yolanda, "Crossing the line: Mexican children making the border 1900-1930" (2023). Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture Series. 11.
https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/rdavidson/11