Frontera Freeways Book Talk & Signing with Dr. Miguel Juárez
DATE: December 11, 2025
TIME: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: West Texas Heritage Center, 201 E San Antonio Ave, El Paso
ADMISSION: Free! Books will be available for purchase.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Frontera Freeways examines the largely overlooked history of freeway construction in El Paso, and its effects on Mexican American communities. Dr. Miguel Juárez uses the Lincoln Park neighborhood, located at the convergence of El Paso’s earliest freeways, as a central case study, showing how the community organized to resist further destruction. The book situates El Paso’s experience within broader Chicana/o urban reclamation movements, exploring the intersections of race, urban planning, and the built environment, and documenting how art, memory, and protest have served as powerful forms of community mobilization.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born and raised in El Paso, Dr. Miguel Juárez is a multidisciplinary scholar, artist, and editor at El Paso News. He holds a Master of Arts in Library Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as a BA in Communications, an MA in Border History, and a PhD in Borderlands History from UTEP. He has also completed graduate coursework in Arts Administration and Museum Studies at CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU Long Beach.
