Karla A Lira

Karla A Lira

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Karla A. Lira is Mexican born and Valley raised Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston. Lira’s research focuses on multi-racial dynamics of Latinx and Black college athletes in the educational and athletic spaces from the latter part of Jim Crow to the 1970s. Her current project, “For The City,” sheds light on the social relations Latinx and Blacks had in the city of Houston and the University of Houston Athletic Program through oral interviews.