Emma Tenayuca (1916 - 1999)

Special issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (volume 24, no. 2/3): Gender on the Borderlands. Edited by Antonia Castañeda. Based on the "Gender on the Borderlands" conference held at St. Mary's University of San Antonio, July 12-14, 2001. Based on this special issue, the University of Nebraska Press published Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader in 2007.

• Berriozábal, María Antonietta. 2003. "María and Emma." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 24, no. 2/3: 230-232. 
  • At Tenayuca's wake, the author incorporated her gifts to humanity in a reworked liturgy of the traditional "Five Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary." 
• González, Gabriela. 2003. "Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: The Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform."  Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 24, no. 2/3: 200-229. 
• Tafolla, Carmen. 2003. "La Pasionaria: To Emma." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 24, no. 2/3: 233-236.
  • The first draft of this poem was read at Emma Tenayuca's funeral in San Fernando Cathedral on July 27, 1999.
• Ybáñez, Theresa A. 2003. "Mujeres de San Antonio: Murals of Emma Tenayuca, Corazones de la Comunidad, and Rosita Fernández." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 24, no. 2/3: 237-243.

Other articles:

• Ledesma, Irene. 1995. "Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism, 1919-1974.." Western Historical Quarterly 26, no. 3 (Autumn): 309-331.
• Shapiro, Harold A. 1952. "The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, Texas." Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 32, no. 4 (March): 229-244.
  • Although this article does not mention Emma Tenayuca, it provides details about the 1938 pecan shellers strike and its aftermath.
• Vargas, Zaragoza. 1997. "Tejana Radical: Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Labor Movement during the Great Depression." Pacific Historical Review 66, no. 4 (November): 553-580.
  • Reprinted in Chapter 10 (pages 219-243) of Texas Labor History.
• Walker, Kenneth P. 1965. "The Pecan Shellers of San Antonio and Mechanization." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (July): 44-58.

• Ayala, Elaine. 2008. "Emma Tenayuca Gets Her Due: A Chicana Activist Written Out of History is Being Written in Again." National Catholic Reporter,  August 22, 2008: 11, 15. General OneFile.
• Ayala, Elaine. 2011. "Marker to Honor Labor Leader: Celebration is Today at Milam Park." San Antonio Express-News, December 21, 2011. MySA.com.
  • A Texas historic marker honoring Emma Tenayuca was dedicated on the 95th anniversary of Tenayuca's birth.
• "La Pasionaria de Texas." 1938. Time, February 28, 1938. Time Magazine Archive.
• Rips, Geoffrey. 1983. "Living History: Emma Tenayuca Tells Her Story." Texas Observer, October 28, 1983: 1, 7-15.