Episode #5 - Las Trailas de NC

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 Isolation
• P'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.

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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 Corrido
• Mundo 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.

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Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

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 1A
• Guerrero, "Latinos in Arkansas and Illegal Aliens"

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

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Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

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

Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

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
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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

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
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Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
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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

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 Tania, Jonathan, Allison, & Nancy 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 our first episode, Tania shares a rundown of growing up going to soccer games with her dad, her brother, or as a family. We break down how in hindsight, these were some of the critical spaces where we could gather and share food, stories, and moments of joy. If you didn’t play soccer, you could at least count on finding el paletero or elotero! 

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

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

Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
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Email: nuestrosouth@latinxed.org
Website: https://nuestrosouth.org/  

Music for this video is obtain through the Artlist Personal License

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, we’re back with new ingredients. Our stories feature illustrations by North Carolina artist,  Antonio Alanis on our Youtube video episode.  Our hosts Bryan, Daisy, Dorian, and Axel invite you to share in a rich conversation about growing up Latina/o/x in the South. You know the flavor. Welcome to Nuestro South, Refried!

On this episode our Nuestro South we discuss the story of Braceros in Arkansas during a period of time with Jim Crow segregation across the South. Our hosts explore the various ways our communities continue to face discrimination but also how we as individuals and communities confront it head on to build strength and power in unlikely spaces.

Hosts: Daisy Almonte, Bryan Mejia, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera, Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado
LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Lucero Rocha, Isabella Lima
Editor: Dorian Gomez
Illustrator: Antonio Alanis
Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

This project was made possible through the generous support of The Whiting Foundation, the Southern Documentary Fund, and LatinxED

Follow us on Social Media @NuestroSouth
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Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/NuestroSouth
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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

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, we’re back with new ingredients. Our stories feature illustrations by North Carolina artist,  Antonio Alanis.  Our hosts Bryan, Daisy, Dorian, and Axel invite you to share in a rich conversation about growing up Latina/o/x in the South. You know the flavor. Welcome to Nuestro South, Refried!

On this episode our Nuestro South crew dives into a story on how Mexicanos faced opportunity and discrimination due to Jim Crow in the Mississippi in thee early 1930s. We then take a dive into the juicy questions about how our people navigate the racial dynamics of the South, where we find our power in the face of a discriminatory system, and how Nuestra Gente starts claiming our own home in the South without performing for whiteness.

Hosts: Daisy Almonte, Bryan Mejia, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera, Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado
LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Lucero Rocha, Isabella Lima
Editor: Dorian Gomez
Illustrator: Antonio Alanis
Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz
This project was made possible through the generous support of The Whiting Foundation, the Southern Documentary Fund, 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
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Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNidXQ3-nyxqsb4R5UWJh4A/videos

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

Music for this video is obtained through the Artlist Personal License.
Juan - Tarante Grove Machine
Spicy Latin - Nbdy Nprtnt

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, we’re back with new ingredients. Our stories feature illustrations by North Carolina artist,  Antonio Alanis on our Youtube video episode.  Our hosts Bryan, Daisy, Dorian, and Axel invite you to share in a rich conversation about growing up Latina/o/x in the South. You know the flavor. Welcome to Nuestro South, Refried!

Our conversation in this episode is focused on the experience of immigrants coming into the Charlotte NC area in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. For those of us that grew up in the South during this period, schools became one of the first institutions our families interacted with. We discuss how our parents navigated that system, how we managed to survive through ESL, and ongoing resource gaps that even more recent immigrant communities still  face.

Hosts: Daisy Almonte, Bryan Mejia, Axel Herrera, Dorian Gomez
Producers: Julie Weise, Erik Valera, Elaine Utin, Ricky Hurtado
LatinxEd Staff: Maria Pulido, Lucero Rocha, Isabella Lima
Editor: Dorian Gomez
Illustrator: Antonio Alanis
Graphics: Keyla Ferretiz

This project was made possible through the generous support of The Whiting Foundation, the Southern Documentary Fund, 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