An interview with Rodolfo de la Garza, Vice President of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, for the University of Texas at Brownsville Faculty Study. Dr. de la Garza talks about his family, his upbringing in Tuscon, Arizona, his experiences at the University of Arizona, and how he came to understand discrimination during his time in graduate school and early academic career.
Creator/Contributor:
Medrano, Manuel, 1949- (collector) and la Garza, Rodolfo de, 1942-2019 (interviewee)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1998-10-30
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
Mexican Americans, Texas--Social conditions, Mexicano americanos, and Texas--Condiciones sociales
Place Name:
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States of America and Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
General Note:
Assigned production number 359. Duration of content within the file is 29 minutes, 39 seconds. All intellectual property rights are retained by the legal copyright holders. The University of Texas at Austin does not hold the copyright to the content of this file. Formal permission to reuse or republish this content must be obtained from the copyright holder. Material copyrighted to Dr. Manuel F. Medrano and The University of Texas at Brownsville. The assets of UT Brownsville are now held by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
Origin Note:
Los del Valle oral history recordings transferred from The University of Texas at Brownsville to The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Digitized with funds from the Latin American Materials Project (LAMP), Center for Research Libraries.