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= Cynthia Ann Orozco =

Cynthia Ann Orozco (also Cynthia E. Orozco) is a historian, museum and television consultant, and public intellectual.

Orozco was born in Cuero, Texas to community activist and writer Aurora E. Orozco and Primitivo Orozco, who were both Mexican immigrants. In high school, she presided over the Cuero High School student council. As a senior she wrote several letters to the Cuero Record. After her graduation speech, she was fired from her job at the high school office for advocating for boys’ rights to long hair, equality in women’s sports, and minority rights.

Education
Orozco attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and graduated with honors in history from the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). UTA Radio Longhorn host Professor Armando Gutierrez interviewed her about the founding of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the topic of her senior honors thesis. The thesis was based on the Adela Sloss-Vento and Alonso S. Perales papers, two private archives of major twentieth century Mexican American civil rights activists in Texas. As a work-study student, she co-founded and co-edited El Tercer Piso, a newsletter of the Center for Mexican American Studies Center at UTA. She attended National Association for Chicano Studies (NACS) conferences as an undergraduate, writing an early critique of sexism in the association.

She received Outstanding Chair of the Texas Union at UTA while heading the Chicano Culture Committee. She also formed a Chicana consciousness-raising group on campus and wrote several letters to the editor for the Daily Texan, the campus newspaper.

While obtaining her masters and doctorate at UCLA, Orozco advocated for the emerging field of Chicana Studies. She served as a coordinator of the Women’s Unit of the Chicano Studies Research Center which advanced Chicana Studies courses and research at UCLA. As coordinator, she authored “Getting Started in Chicano Studies” for a women studies journal. She co-founded the Chicana Caucus of NACS and spoke at the 1984 conference in Austin, its first conference focused on women; her essay “Sexism in Chicano Studies” was published in Chicana Voices. She joined Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), a Latina academic organization, serving as its first historian and writing its first chronology. Her dissertation proposal won second place from the National Women’s Studies Association and she received a Ford Foundation dissertation fellowship.

Orozco also served as Research Associate for Hispanic Studies at the Texas State Historical Association in Austin writing eighty articles for the New Handbook of Texas published in 1996. There she helped organize the “Mexican Americans in Texas History” conference held in San Antonio in 1990, co-editing conference proceedings, Mexican American in Texas History. She also wrote the foreword to Las Tejanas by Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten.

Career
Orozco worked as Research Associate at the Institute of Texan Cultures from 1992-1993. A Ford Foundation fellowship provided post-doctoral work at UTA. She taught history at the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of New Mexico, and has taught at Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso since 2000 where she advocated for the establishment of tenure as university policy. At ENMU, she has taught history courses on Lincoln County, New Mexico, US, Western Civilization, and World Humanities. She also taught students who became docents of Lincoln Historic Site and Fort Stanton Historic Site in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

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 LULAC, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the US. It was the University of Texas Press’ best-selling scholarly book of the decade. She served as associate editor of Latinas in American History: An Historical Encyclopedia and has written encyclopedia entries for the Worldbook and American National Biography.

The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) commissioned her to conduct qualitative interviews and site visits at twenty-five Latina/o museums and cultural centers in Texas, California, Arizona, and Colorado, a study published in Latino Museums: A History Reclaimed.

Public Intellectual
Orozco has written for newspapers and newsletters since 1975. Newspapers include the Cuero Record, Daily Texan, Daily Bruin, La Gente, Together, Los Angeles Times, La Opinion, Austin American Statesman, Arriba, San Antonio Express, Corpus Christi Caller, McAllen Monitor, El Paso Times, Albuquerque Journal, Ruidoso News, Ruidoso Free Press and La Voz de Austin. She wrote about activist Adela Sloss-Vento for Tejano Talks associated with the Corpus Christi Caller and Texas A&M University, Kingsville. She has also written for newsletters of the Intercultural Development and Research Association; Esperanza Peace and Justice; Fort Stanton; the Historical Society of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Southwest Hispanic Research Institute and Mexic-Arte Museum. She has also written for UTA History department’s “Not Even Past,” “Somos Primos,” and “Mujeres Talk.”

She prepared newspaper articles on the history of ENMU Ruidoso to commemorate its twenty-fifth anniversary for the Ruidoso News. Likewise, as Interim Curator of Education at the Hubbard Museum of the American West she wrote Lincoln County history stories for the News. She also authored “The LULAC Milestones” for the 1990 Texas state LULAC convention.

Orozco has also served as a museum and TV consultant. She consulted on Rene Tajima’s PBS film “Calavera Highway” as well as Georgetown University’s Mexican American women’s history exhibit, Cheech Marin’s “Chicano Now” art exhibit, and a Texas women’s history exhibit at the Bullock Texas History State Museum in Austin. She is a board member of “Unladylike,” a multi-media project about US women during the Progressive era released in March 2020 and commemorating US women’s suffrage in 1920.

She has appeared on NBC News and C-SPAN Book TV at the 2010 Texas Book Festival and has been a featured speaker at National LULAC and Texas Press Association conferences. The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education have interviewed her. She spoke about activist Alice Dickerson Montemayor at the Smithsonian and about Selena on National Public Radio.

Public Service
Orozco has served on the boards of the Historical Society of New Mexico, Historical Society of Lincoln County, Fort Stanton Inc., Friends of the Hubbard Museum, and the Ruidoso Public Library. Governor Bill Richardson appointed her to the New Mexico Humanities Council. She also helped coordinate Fort Stanton’s Sesquicentennial history conference in 2005.

She has served as president of Ruidoso LULAC; president of the Golden Age Club at the Ruidoso Community Center; and secretary of the Lincoln County Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). She has been a Big Sister.

Politics
Orozco served as campaign manager for the Leo Martinez Congressional campaign in the 2nd district of New Mexico in 2002 and has written several political blogs for Medium.

Awards and Interviews
In 2012 the Texas State Historical Association named Orozco a fellow and New Mexico LULAC named her Educator of the Year. She received the ENMU Ruidoso National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017 and the President’s Award for Service and Teaching in 2019.

She has been interviewed by several newspapers: La Gente at UCLA, Tejas at UT Austin, and La Prensa of Austin while the American Historical Association profiled her in 2017.

Orozco’s papers are located in the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas and the Chicano Studies Library at UCLA. Oral histories she conducted are located in the Voces Oral History Collection, also at UTA. An oral history of Orozco conducted by Marley Roser is located at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

= References =

Archives
https://voces.lib.utexas.edu/collections/cynthia-orozco

Orozco family collection, Benson Latin American Collection

http://chicano.ucla.edu/about/news/csrc-newsletter-october-2017

Secondary Sources

CSpan TV
https://www.c-span.org/person/?cynthiaorozco

“Interview with Cynthia Orozco,” La Gente, UCLA, Spring 1984.

Keough, Matthew. “AHA Member Spotlight: Cynthia E. Orozco,” August 22, 2017. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2017/aha-member-spotlight-cynthia-e-orozco

Latinas in American History: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korral (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006)

“Latinas in Grad School: Who are They?” Tejas, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 1996. Lopez, Nikki. https://notevenpast.org/la-mujer-unidad-cynthia-orozco-ut-history-honors-graduate-80/

New Handbook of Texas, edited by Ronnie Tyler, Douglas Barnett, and Roy Barkley (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).

Orozco, Cynthia E., “Leo Martinez and Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco,” Lincoln County Tells Its Stories (Ruidoso: Lincoln County Historical Society, 2013)

UT Radio Longhorn Network: https://www.laits.utexas.edu/onda_latina/program?sernum=000524526&theme=History

= Bibliography =

Books
Mexican Americans in Texas History ed. Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000).

Cynthia E. Orozco. Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020).

No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Austin: University of Texas, 2009)

Articles
“Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Mexican American Politics in Texas in the 1930s,” Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the American Women’s West, ed. Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997): 435-456.

“Alonso S. Perales and His Struggle for the Civil Rights of La Raza through the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Texas: Incansable Soldado del Civismo Pro-Raza,” In Defense of My People Alonso S. Perales and the Development of Mexican-American Public Intellectuals, ed. Michael A. Olivas (Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2012)

“Beyond Machismo, La Familia, and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women’s Participation in Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870-1990,” Perspectives in Mexican American Studies 5 (Tucson: Mexican American Studies & Research Center, University of Arizona: 1995): 1-34.

“Chicana Labor History: A Critique of Male Consciousness in Historical Writing,” La Red/The Net No. 77 (February 1984): 2-5.

“Chicano and Latino Arts and Culture Institutions in the Southwest: The Politics of Space, Race, and Money” in Latinos in Museums: A Heritage Reclaimed, ed. Antonio Rios-Bustamante and Christine Martin (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Co., 1998): 95-107

“Getting Started in Chicana Studies,” Women Studies Quarterly XVIII: 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1990):46-69.

“Leo Martinez and Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco,” Lincoln County Tells Its Stories (Ruidoso: Lincoln County Historical Society Publications, 2012): 394.

“Regionalism, Politics, and Gender in Southwestern History: The League of United Latin American Citizens’ (LULAC) Expansion into New Mexico from Texas, 1929-1945,” Western Historical Quarterly XXIX: 4 (November 1998): 459-483.

“Sexism in Chicano Studies and the Community,” Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race, 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.

“What the Film ‘Latino Americans’ Offers and Misses,” Mujeres Talk, January 28, 2014. http://mujerestalk.org/2014/01/28/what-the-film-latino-americans-offers-and-misses/

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