Nuestro South Podcast
Welcome to the Nuestro South Podcast! A podcast series that explores the stories of Latina/o/x people in the U.S. South from the Jim Crow era on through to the present. Join the conversation as we unpack the experience of being Latina/o/x in Nuestro South. We control our narrative! This is for us y'all! This podcast is produced by Erik Valera, Dr. Julie Weise, and Elaine Townsend Utin with generous sponsorship from the Whiting Foundation, the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences, North Carolina Humanities and LatinxEd. Our OG podcast hosts are Axel Herrera Ramos, Bryan Mejia, Daisy Almonte, and Dorian Gomez. Our new Storyteller is Jonathan Peraza Campos, Allison Delgado, Karina Moreno Bueno, Nancy Garcia Villa, Tania Dominguez, & Victoria Garcia. Shoutout to our partner Latina Scholars Dr. Perla Guerrero, Dr. Yuri Ramirez, and Dr. Yami Rodriguez. Edited by Dorian Gomez & Axel Herrera Ramos. Graphics and Promotion by Keyla Ferretiz
Podcasting since 2019 • 24 episodes
Nuestro South Podcast
Latest Episodes
Southern Compañía: Indigenous Immigrants challenge perceptions of Latinidad & Southern identity
Let’s zoom out a bit and have some charlas con Southern Compañia. We know that our lived experience in the south is multigenerational– sabemos que no es ayer que llegamos and many of our roots started decades ago. También sabemos that where you...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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34:42
Southern Compañía: “Sin la diversión, lo único que hay es trabajo” - Labor and Leisure for Southern Immigrant Communities
Let’s zoom out a bit and have some charlas con Southern Compañia. We know that our lived experience in the south is multigenerational– sabemos que no es ayer que llegamos and many of our roots started decades ago. También sabemos that where you...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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39:02
Southern Compañía: “You’re not one of those Mexicans” - Racialization of Latinx Immigrants in the South
Let’s zoom out a bit and have some charlas con Southern Compañia. We know that our lived experience in the south is multigenerational– sabemos que no es ayer que llegamos and many of our roots started decades ago. También sabemos that where you...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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38:11
Nuestras Escuelas: A Southern Latinx Reflection of our Education & its Possibilities
It’s Nuestro South, con el mismo sazón, but with some new voices. Join our new storytellers from across the US south as they explore how and where they found comunidad while growing up in the US South. This next stage of Nuestro South e...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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33:48
Museums, Heritage, & Respect: Conexiones at Sites of Cultural Preservation
It’s Nuestro South, con el mismo sazón, but with some new voices. Join our new storytellers from across the US south as they explore how and where they found comunidad while growing up in the US South. This next stage of Nuestro South e...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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19:33