Nov. 5 lecture series discusses Tejana identity – University of Texas at San Antonio

The UTSA Women’s Studies Institute and UTSA La Raza Faculty and Administrators’ Association present “From Salsa to Selena: Decolonizing Performances of Tejana Identity on Stage and in the Kitchen,” as part of the Tejidas Chicano/Latina lecture series. The event is 5:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5 in the John Peace Library Building Assembly Room (4.03.08), UTSA 1604 Campus.

Speakers at the event will be Norma Cárdenas, UTSA lecturer in bilingual-bicultural studies, and Lori Beth Rodriguez, UTSA doctoral candidate in English. Cárdenas will speak on “Epistemologies and Geographies of the Panza, Kitchen and Home: Cooking as a Chicana Third Space Performative Act.” Rodriguez will lecture on “Speaking Tejana: Mapping Constructions of Tejana Identity Within Literature, Film and Popular Culture.”"*

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