The 10 Best Latino USA Podcast Episodes
1) Digging Into 'American Dirt'
The novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins was released this January with much anticipation. Oprah selected it to be part of her book club, writer Don Winslow called it, "a Grapes of Wrath for our tim...Show More
michelle_ebooks recommended:
this is the only american dirt controversy content you need to hear to get the gist of the whole mess. you’ll hear the voices of those calli...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) The Quevedos
Sayre Quevedo grew up knowing just two members of his blood family, his mom and his brother. His father left before he was born and his mother lost touch with her family after leaving home as a teenag...Show More
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just discovered sayre quevedo's work (he's won a couple notable podcast awards now and i'm sad i didn't hear his stuff sooner!) and this one...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Being Asian and Latino
In the U.S., the two fastest-growing ethnic groups are Asian and Latino—and those groups are not mutually exclusive. For centuries, immigrants from Asia have settled in Mexico all the way down to Arge...Show More
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I’m a Salvadoreña engaged to a Singaporean, and we hope to one day have a family. We’ve talked a lot about how we might talk to our kids abo...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) The Archivists: The Unseen Fight to Preserve Our Stories
After months of working closely with the archivists and librarians of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas in Austin, the Latino USA team wanted to dig deeper int...Show More
5) Nikole Hannah-Jones: Beyond the 1619 Project
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones rose to instant recognition when she published the 1619 Project in 2019. Since then she’s received countless praise, awards, and recognition, but ...Show More
6) Getting Real About Pregnancy
Pregnancy comes with all kinds of questions, but the journey to pregnancy and the mishaps along the way are often overlooked or taboo in the Latino community. How can we as a community help break the ...Show More
7) Portrait Of: Arca
Alejandra Ghersi, the experimental musician from Venezuela known as Arca, has been at the forefront of a movement that has pushed the boundaries of the pop music landscape. Since dropping her first mi...Show More
8) The Breakdown: The Legacy Of 'Dora The Explorer'
In 1998, three television writers tasked with creating the next hit children's show came up with the idea of a young girl who would go on adventures, and ask questions directly to the audience. With t...Show More
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I’m really enjoying this episode about how Dora The Explorer came about.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) Estrella, Revisited
In February of 2017, ICE agents arrested Estrella, an undocumented trans woman, inside an El Paso courthouse. Estrella was there after filing for a protective order, testifying in a domestic abuse hea...Show More
10) Ornella & Violeta
For seventeen years, Ornella Pedrozo thought of her mom's detainment by ICE as her deepest, darkest secret. When she was four years old, her mother Violeta, who had fled the armed conflict in Peru, wa...Show More
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