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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