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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
Episodes
24 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
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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
Vital Vecindades: Establishing roots in North Carolina’s mobile 'trailas'
It’s Nuestro South, con el mismo sazón, but 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 expands...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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18:22
Soccer Everyday: Community Building through soccer in the Georgia Suburbs
It’s Nuestro South, con el mismo sazón, but 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 S...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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21:50
Nuestro South Refried: "No Mexicans" Arkansas, 1949
If you’re from the South, you know that Nuestra Gente have been written out of the history books. So we took it upon ourselves to bring you the history we were not taught in school. The Nuestro South podcast debuted in 2019. Now, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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26:29
Nuestro South Refried: Growing up in a Black & White South
If you’re from the South, you know that Nuestra Gente have been written out of the history books. So we took it upon ourselves to bring you the history we were not taught in school. The Nuestro South podcast debuted in 2...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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26:00
Nuestro South Refried: ESL for 6 years SUCKED!
If you’re from the South, you know that Nuestra Gente have been written out of the history books. So we took it upon ourselves to bring you the history we were not taught in school. The Nuestro South podcast debuted in 2019....
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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15:00
Loud & Proud: Indigeneity, Organizing, & the Catholic Church
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:28:51
Loud & Proud: Freedom Dreaming for NC District 63
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:12:48
Loud & Proud: Where 'Juan Crow' meets Pedro
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:20:07
Loud & Proud: Mexican Atlanta...Under Construction
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:33:21
Loud & Proud: “Las Polleras de Mississippi” Part 2
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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49:26
Loud & Proud: “Las Polleras de Mississippi” Part 1 (En Español)
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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48:02
Loud & Proud: The Music of a Mexilachian Future
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:17:49
Loud & Proud: Race, Labor, and Chicanos in the South
The Nuestro South Loud & Proud series focuses on the Poder y Cultura that Nuestra Gente in the South can possess. From the comida que cocinamos, the music we play, and our labor which plants, cleans, and builds-- Nuestra Gente has grown dee...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:02:24
Episode #5 - Las Trailas de NC
Now we enter the story! Today’s episode is about las trailas. Axel lived in one for a while growing up, and we know many of y’all did too. The trailas we’re talking about in today’s episode were around the corner from middle-class white hous...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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35:05
Episode #4 - Los campos de Georgia
In the 1960s through 1980s, millions of Latinos started traveling through the South as migrant farmworkers. Daisy has some personal experience with this since she grew up in a rural area and worked in the packing sheds before she became a co...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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41:30
Episode #3 - Getting help from La Patria (Los braceros de Arkansas)
Back in the 1950s, hundreds of thousands of Mexican men came to Arkansas to pick cotton, on contracts negotiated by the Mexican and U.S. governments. Today we meet Angel Cano, a licenciado Mexico sent over to protect them from wage theft, di...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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34:00
Episode #2 - Mexicans school Mississippi
You may think Mississippi was all black and white back in the day, but n’ombre - our gente were there too! Today we meet Rafael Landrove: A Mexican sharecropper in 1920s Mississippi who came from Mexico, called himself Cuban, and fought to s...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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30:44
Episode #1 - A time Mexicans lived as Europeans in New Orleans
Vamos a New Orleans, nearly 100 years ago. Mexican immigrants arrived there by boat. Many, like a man named Robert Canedo, were able to “blend in” to whiteness -- something we couldn’t imagine being able to do today. Or could we? - Thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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26:51