Midland College will host a special Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture with Dr. José Angel Hernández at 6 p.m. today (Sept. 30) at the Cogdell Learning Center, 201 W. Florida Ave., Midland.
Admission is free.
Hernández, a distinguished scholar and award-winning author, will present an exploration of the late 19th-century movement that relocated Tejano families back to Mexico. He will highlight how this process of autocolonization differs from traditional settler colonization.
“We are fortunate to have Dr. José Angel Hernández speak at Midland College,” Jaime Águila, Midland College’s Director of Community and Family Engagement, said in a news release. “His scholarship analyzes Mexican migration from a global perspective. He has won numerous awards including serving as a Fulbright US Scholar three times and in 2024 won the ‘Captain Alonso de León Steel Medal for Historical Merit’ conferred by the Nuevoleonesa Society of History, Geography, and Statistics.”
