24 episodes

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

Nuestro South Podcast Nuestro South Podcast

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 38 Ratings

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

    Southern Compañía: Indigenous Immigrants challenge perceptions of Latinidad & Southern identity

    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 set up roots in the South also matters. Tune in as we explore the Latinx Southern experience from Arkansas, to Georgia, to North Carolina and beyond!


    When we say that “we control the narrative,” we mean it! Our history is no longer just being told about us by outsiders. We now have wonderful scholars exploring a history and experience that is also their own as southerners or children of immigrants. En estas charlas, each of our scholars Dr. Perla Guerrero, Dr. Yami Rodriguez, and Dr. Yuri Ramirez guide our storytellers on exploring how our southern communities formed within a particularly racialized southern landscape, how we find leisure and joy within the pressure of being mostly just tolerated as labor, and how our transnational immigrant identities also intersect with indigenous heritage, identity, and culture.    


    In this episode, Dr. Yuri Ramirez helps us be more introspective of the communities and identities that exist within our own folks which very much include indigenous identities and culture. Our storytellers get an opportunity to share their indigenous cultural backgrounds and how they nurture it even after generations since their families immigrated. We also break down how there are gaps in our own understanding of Latinx indigeneity given the depictions provided over pop culture and media. The historical anti-indigenous racism within many Latin American countries may sometimes lead to indigenous communities finding more of a refuge with places like the US South. 


    Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    Storytellers: Allison Delgado, Nancy Garcia Villa, Jonathan Perraza-Campos, Karina Moreno Bueno, Tania Dominguez, 
    Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera,  Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
    Consulting Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Bryan Mejia
    Editor: Axel Herrera 
    Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

    Articles and Materials Referenced:
    Immigrants Who Speak Indigenous Mexican Languages Encounter IsolationP'urhépecha Migrants in North Carolina: A Saint Day Festival

    This project was made possible through the generous support of North Carolina Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, and LatinxEd.


    Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
    Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nuestrosouth/
    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
    Twitter- https://twitter.com/nuestrosouth
    TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@nuestrosouth
    Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos


    Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
    Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  


    Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

    • 34 min
    Southern Compañía: “Sin la diversión, lo único que hay es trabajo” - Labor and Leisure for Southern Immigrant Communities

    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 set up roots in the South also matters. Tune in as we explore the Latinx Southern experience from Arkansas, to Georgia, to North Carolina and beyond!


    When we say that “we control the narrative,” we mean it! Our history is no longer just being told about us by outsiders. We now have wonderful scholars exploring a history and experience that is also their own as southerners or children of immigrants. En estas charlas, each of our scholars Dr. Perla Guerrero, Dr. Yami Rodriguez, and Dr. Yuri Ramirez guide our storytellers on exploring how our southern communities formed within a particularly racialized southern landscape, how we find leisure and joy within the pressure of being mostly just tolerated as labor, and how our transnational immigrant identities also intersect with indigenous heritage, identity, and culture. 


    In this episode, Dr. Yami Rodriguez asks us to take a break, breathe, and just have some fun. La diversión, leisure, irse de parranda and all the ways we find joy are just as essential to the southern immigrant experience as is our history of struggle and hard work. For many early immigrant communities, arriving to the South brought some level of isolation, but over time, our folks started building community through music, bailes, going to las pulgas, playing soccer or other sports, and of course food. 


    Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    Storytellers: Allison Delgado, Nancy Garcia Villa, Jonathan Perraza-Campos, Karina Moreno Bueno, Tania Dominguez, 
    Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera,  Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
    Consulting Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Bryan Mejia
    Editor: Axel Herrera 
    Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

    Articles and Materials Referenced:
    “Las Trocas de Buford” by Los Reyes del CorridoMundo Hispanico Archives on Bailes In Atlanta Georgia

    This project was made possible through the generous support of North Carolina Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, and LatinxEd.


    Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
    Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nuestrosouth/
    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
    Twitter- https://twitter.com/nuestrosouth
    TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@nuestrosouth
    Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos


    Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
    Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  


    Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

    • 39 min
    Southern Compañía: “You’re not one of those Mexicans” - Racialization of Latinx Immigrants in the South

    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 set up roots in the South also matters. Tune in as we explore the Latinx Southern experience from Arkansas, to Georgia, to North Carolina and beyond!


    When we say that “we control the narrative,” we mean it! Our history is no longer just being told about us by outsiders. We now have wonderful scholars exploring a history and experience that is also their own as southerners or children of immigrants. En estas charlas, each of our scholars Dr. Perla Guerrero, Dr. Yami Rodriguez, and Dr. Yuri Ramirez guide our storytellers on exploring how our southern communities formed within a particularly racialized southern landscape, how we find leisure and joy within the pressure of being mostly just tolerated as labor, and how our transnational immigrant identities also intersect with indigenous heritage, identity, and culture.    


    In this episode, Dr. Perla Guerrero kicks off the conversation by exploring a bit our personal journeys to the US South and how the South as a region perceived early immigrant  newcomers. Perla traces over how, al inicio, some folks couldn’t even classify her correctly as Mexican because of the prior notions they had of what ‘Mexican’ folks were. Our storytellers also break down how their families first experienced some of these highly racialized settings and some of the generational differences between moving to the South in the early 90s versus more recently. Lastly, we cover the resilience of nuestra comunidad and the richness of Black resistance in the South that we can learn from and draw a sense of hope for a more inclusive and equitable future. 


    Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    Storytellers: Allison Delgado, Nancy Garcia Villa, Jonathan Perraza-Campos, Karina Moreno Bueno, Tania Dominguez
    Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera,  Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez, Bryan Mejia
    Consulting Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido
    Editor: Axel Herrera 
    Marketing & Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

    Articles and Materials Referenced:
    Being illegal-it's a job - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) -
    March 24, 1997 - page 1AGuerrero, "Latinos in Arkansas and Illegal Aliens"This project was made possible through the generous support of North Carolina Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, and LatinxEd.
    Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
    Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nuestrosouth/
    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
    Twitter- https://twitter.com/nuestrosouth
    TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@nuestrosouth
    Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos


    Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
    Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  


    Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

    • 38 min
    Nuestras Escuelas: A Southern Latinx Reflection of our Education & its Possibilities

    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 expands beyond the experiences of our initial hosts and brings in the perspectives of storytellers from rural NC, urban and suburban Georgia, and northwest Arkansas. Our new storytellers Nancy, Jonathan, Allison, & Tania invite you to share in a rich conversation about growing up Latina/o/x in the South. You know the flavor. Check out some of the new voices from Nuestro South!

    In this episode, Jonathan, our resident badass educator and organizer, walks us through those early experiences as young first or second generation immigrant students in school across the South. As we reflect on what the experience was for us, the failures and opportunities, we also take the time to dream of the possibilities that our future students deserve in order to get a quality and holistic education that values the entirety of their identities and talents. 

    Hosts:  Jonathan Perraza-Campos, Allison Delgado, Nancy Garcia Villa, Karina Moreno Bueno
    Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera,  Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
    Consulting Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Bryan Mejia
    Editor: Axel Herrera
    Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

    This project was made possible through the generous support of North Carolina Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, and LatinxEd.

    Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
    Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nuestrosouth/
    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
    Twitter- https://twitter.com/nuestrosouth
    TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@nuestrosouth
    Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos

    Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
    Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  

    Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

    • 33 min
    Museums, Heritage, & Respect: Conexiones at Sites of Cultural Preservation

    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 expands beyond the experiences of our initial hosts and brings in the perspectives of storytellers from rural NC, urban and suburban Georgia, and northwest Arkansas. Our new storytellers Nancy, Jonathan, Allison, & Tania invite you to share in a rich conversation about growing up Latina/o/x in the South. You know the flavor. Check out some of the new voices from Nuestro South!

    In this episode, Allison has us take a look at our history and where it gets displayed. Our storytellers tackle the significance of feeling visible or left out by our public history. What it meant to be a nerdy kid that loved museums but not necessarily grow up with the resources to visit all the time. Lastly, how sites of historical and cultural preservation hold a burden responsibility to the communities and cultures their artifacts represent and how harm can also be perpetuated.


    Hosts: Allison Delgado, Nancy Garcia Villa, Jonathan Perraza-Campos, Karina Moreno Bueno
    Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera,  Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
    Consulting Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Bryan Mejia
    Editor: Axel Herrera
    Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

    This project was made possible through the generous support of North Carolina Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, and LatinxEd.
     
    Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
    Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nuestrosouth/
    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
    Twitter- https://twitter.com/nuestrosouth
    TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@nuestrosouth
    Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos

    Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
    Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  

    Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

    • 19 min
    Vital Vecindades: Establishing roots in North Carolina’s mobile 'trailas'

    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 beyond the experiences of our initial hosts and brings in the perspectives of storytellers from rural NC, urban and suburban Georgia, and northwest Arkansas. Our new storytellers Nancy, Jonathan, Allison, & Tania invite you to share in a rich conversation about growing up Latina/o/x in the South. You know the flavor. Check out some of the new voices from Nuestro South!

    In this episode, Nancy helps us breakdown how some of our most vulnerable communities can actually represent spaces of resilience where nuestra cultura thrives. It’s another episode on trailas but with a remix of regions and hosts. As young latinx southerners, where we grow up largely defines what our early sense of community is like. If you were ever part of that single trailer park bus-stop, you know what vecindades like this look like. Many times our goal is always to leave these living conditions, but in this conversation, we also reflect on the cultural significance they were for us and the economic circumstances that define those experiences.

    Hosts: Nancy Garcia Villa, Tania Dominguez, Jonathan Perraza-Campos, Allison Delgado
    Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera,  Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
    Consulting Scholars: Perla Guerrero, Yami Rodriguez, Yuri Ramirez
    LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Bryan Mejia
    Editor: Axel Herrera
    Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz
    This project was made possible through the generous support of North Carolina Humanities, The Whiting Foundation, and LatinxEd. 

    Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
    Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nuestrosouth/
    Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
    Twitter- https://twitter.com/nuestrosouth
    TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@nuestrosouth
    Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos

    Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
    Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  


    Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

    • 18 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
38 Ratings

38 Ratings

Marimarv ,

Amazing

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the podcast. As an immigrant myself, I could relate to many of the things you talked about.

I only wish there were more episodes. I hope in the future there will be.

Everyone did an amazing job. Thanks for making the podcast.

Savannah Windham ,

Listen to this Podcast

This podcast is a must-listen if you’re looking to hear real, Southern, brilliant Latinx perspectives and history from the American South. Daisy, Axel, and Bryan expertly help fill the huge gap many of us have in our white-washed historical knowledge of America. They blend historical accounts with personal anecdotes that help the listener better understand the rich and varied cultures of the many, many identities of Latinx persons in Nuestro South. Thanks for sharing your perspectives, guys! Keep making these podcasts!

Tim Monreal ,

Gracias

Thanks for all you do in sharing this history and your stories!

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