and thank you to the juan holt family for sponsoring this beautiful venue. we encourage to share your experience today on social media and tag essay book fest. all events in this are being recorded by c-span fans book tv. so with that in mind, key, please make sure that your cell phones are silenced and please note that flash photography is not permitted. book sales and finance will take place after this session at the nowhere bookshop tent right outside in the market place. please support, your local economy and our official bookseller by buying your books here at the festival marketplace. okay now i'm going to introduce author dr. omar valerio-jimenez is professor of history, the university of texas at san antonio, and the associate director i'm sorry, the associate dean for graduate studies for college of liberal and fine arts. he was born and matamoras and grew up in taft. corpus christi and edinburg, texas after graduating from, he worked an engineer for five years before attending ucla, where he obtained his master's doctorate degrees. at utsa, he teac

and thank you to the juan holt family for sponsoring this beautiful venue. we encourage to share your experience today on social media and tag essay book fest. all events in this are being recorded by c-span fans book tv. so with that in mind, key, please make sure that your cell phones are silenced and please note that flash photography is not permitted. book sales and finance will take place after this session at the nowhere bookshop tent right outside in the market place. please support, your local economy and our official bookseller by buying your books here at the festival marketplace. okay now i'm going to introduce author dr. omar valerio-jimenez is professor of history, the university of texas at san antonio, and the associate director i'm sorry, the associate dean for graduate studies for college of liberal and fine arts. he was born and matamoras and grew up in taft. corpus christi and edinburg, texas after graduating from, he worked an engineer for five years before attending ucla, where he obtained his master's doctorate degrees. at utsa, he teac