Mexican American women, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Cynthia Ann Orozco (also Cynthia E. Orozco) is a professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University known for her work establishing the field of Chicana studies.
Orozco is known for her work in Chicana Studies.[4] Orozco's work has been discussed by Ernesto Chávez who described the history of the movement in his 2013 article,[5] and by Sonia Hernández in her 2015 article on Mexican(a) labor history.[6] She served as a coordinator of the Women’s Unit of the Chicano Studies Research Center which advanced Chicana Studies courses and research at the University of California, Los Angeles.[7] She authored “Getting Started in Chicano Studies” for a women's studies journal,[8] and co-founded the Chicana Caucus of National Association for Chicano Studies.[9] Orozco spoke at the 1984 conference in Austin, its first conference focused on women, and the resulting essay “Sexism in Chicano Studies” was published in Chicana Voices.[10]
Orozco has taught at Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso since 2000 where she advocated for the establishment of tenure as university policy.[11] She wrote No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, the first scholarly history of the origins of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).[12] The book was reviewed by multiple journals.[13][14][15][16][17] Orozco has written about the activist Adela Sloss-Vento,[18][19] in a book that was reviewed by other journals.[20][21][22] In 2020, Orozco published a book about the civil rights activist Alonso Perales.[23]
Awards and honors
In 2012 the Texas State Historical Association named Orozco a fellow,[24][25] and New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens named her Educator of the Year.[26] In 2015, she was one of the 'emerging leaders' named by the American Library Association.[27] In 2018, she received the Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso National Society of Leadership and Success "Excellence in Teaching Award".[28] In 2020, her book Agent of Change received the Liz Carpenter award from the Texas State Historical Association.[29]
^Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, “The Interdisciplinary Project of Chicana History: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” Pacific Historical Review 82: 4 (2013): 542-65. See Jose M. Aguilar, “¡Sí Se Pudo!: A Critical Race History of the Movements for Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, 1990-1993,” UCLA dissertation, Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pt6c52x, 2013.
^Chávez, Ernesto (November 1, 2013). "Chicano/a History". Pacific Historical Review. 82 (4): 505–519. doi:10.1525/phr.2013.82.4.505. Among this group was Cynthia Orozco, who, while a UCLA history graduate student, wrote about this new perspective in the pages of La Red/The Net. While Chicanos in the previous generation had been influenced by social history and its focus on community studies, Chicanas were inspired by developments in U.S. women's history. In her article, Orozco argued that Chicano historians must pose new questions and reconsider traditional questions in light of women's experiences.
^Cynthia Orozco, “Sexism in Chicano Studies and the Community,” Chicana Voices: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender, ed. Teresa Cordova, Norma Elia Cantu, Gilberto Cardenas, Juan Garcia, and Christine M. Sierra (Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas Press, 1986): 11-18.
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