Alberto Rodriguez's Page

I am a ABD PhD student at the University of Houston History Department. My area of study is American History from 1860s to 1945. My specialty is Black/Brown relations on the South Texas Borderlands and the West with an emphasis on gender and identity formation. Simply put I want to understand how Blacks and ethnic Mexicans got along or did not. My research interests include Chican@, Latino, African American, BlacXican history, race/ethnicity,Gender, and Queer Theory. My dissertation will use hybridity and transculturation to analyze Blacks and Mexican/Mexican Americans on the border and try to understand the divisions between both ethnic groups. The purpose of the project is to Blacken the Borderlands and move South Texas into the West. What is meant by Blacken the Borderlands is that most of the scholarship based in the South Texas Borderlands and even throughout the Borderlands are Anglo/Mexican/Mexican American discourses. Before getting to the University of Houston I received a BA and MA in History from the University of Texas Pan American in Edinburg, Texas.