Institute for Historical Studies – Monday, November 8, 2021
Notes from the Director
“The Eyes of Texas” is such a controversial school song that last year the President of UT established a committee to investigate the origins of the song and its evolution over time. The Committee concluded that the song did not have explicit, obvious racist origins. Recently in a series of detailed archival studies, Professor Alberto A. Martinez argued that the committee drew too heavily on the testimony of an utterly unreliable witness who participated in the creation of the song. This panel will convene to discuss whether the Presidential Committee got the history of the origins of the song right. ~ Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Featuring Historians:
- Dr. H. W. Brands
Professor; Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History
The University of Texas at Austin - Dr. Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
Associate Professor of History, and
Director, African American Studies Program
Texas State University - Dr. Alberto A. Martínez
Professor of History, and Director, History and Philosophy of Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Moderators:
- Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History; and Director, Institute for Historical Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin - Dr. Edmund T. Gordon
Vice Provost for Diversity, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; Executive Director of Commemorative and Contextualization Projects; Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies and John L Warfield Center for African and African American Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin
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