History Department Brown Bag Colloquium: Lora Key

“El Espíritu de Tucson” Tucson’s Mexican American Home Front

When

12:30 p.m., Nov. 6, 2019

Where

This talk will examine three Tucson organizations that struggled with race, gender, and class issues while they supported the war effort on the home front: Alianza Hispano-Americana, La Asociación Hispano-Americana de Madres y Esposas, and the Tucson Committee for Inter-Racial Understanding. These associations represented a segmented cross-section of its Mexican American communities and reveal the diverse ideas and peoples of Tucson and suggest distinct ways in which each sought to claim agency and citizenship during WWII. The divisions across the southwestern city’s hierarchies of race, class, and gender shaped the way Mexican American experienced patriotism and duty on Tucson’s home front.