Emma Perez

The most important battle in Texas after the infamous Battle of the Alamo in 1836 was the Battle of San Jacinto where Anglo Texans cried, “Remember the Alamo.” In Emma Perez's new novel, we read about the other side of that history, the history of common women and men who lived in Tejas when it shifted from Indian and Mexican territory to its own nation, the Republic of Texas, a republic founded on greed and murder. This is the story of Mexican Tejana Micaela Campos, her mixed-race Black-Indian woman lover, Clara, and Micaela's nemesis and arch-rival, the Anglo-Texan Jedidah Jones, whose relationships and conflicts embody the racial and sexual struggles that populated 19 th -century Texas .

UCLA alumn, Emma Pérez, has published essays in history and feminist theory as well as a book of history/theory titled, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999) and a novel, Gulf Dreams (1996). In fall 2003, she joined the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder where she is an Associate Professor. Her novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory is forthcoming with University of Texas Press, 2009.
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Co-Sponsored by the Women's Studies Department and the Department of English