Stephen J. Andes Streaming November 12 In Zorro’s Shadow, Baton Rouge local and LSU professor, Stephen J. Andes, explores how Zorro’s Latinx origins and his impact on pop culture became the blueprint for the modern, iconic superheroes we know today. Zorro made his appearance as the first masked and caped hero in 1919 as he fenced his way throughout Spanish California. Historian and Latin American studies expert, Andes, unmasks Zorro and the legends behind Zorro as a reclamation of a multiethnic and multicultural America.