Interview with Paloma Rodriguez Saucedo (2024-02-29)

Authors

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Interviewees

Paloma Rodriguez Saucedo

Interviewer

Jason Tejeda Molina

Study ID

038

Description

Jason Tejeda Molina interviews Paloma Rodriguez Saucedo in Richmond, Virginia, on February 29, 2024. In the interview, Rodriguez Saucedo shares her experiences with her early years in life moving back and forth between Mexico and the United States of America. Paloma also shares about the Latino community in which she grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and how close-knit the community is. In this interview, Rodriguez Saucedo also reflects the complexities of growing up between two cultures and the challenges of being the child of immigrants in the U.S. and having to navigate the schooling system and racial and cultural biases.

Note

This interview was conducted in English, and the transcript is in English only.

Topical Subject

Mexican Americans; Hispanic Americans; Latin Americans; Texas; Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico); Mexico; Harrisonburg (Va.); Waynesboro (Va.); Catholics; Catholic Church; Emigration and immigration; Children of immigrants; Green cards; Education; Discrimination in education; Racism in education; Virginia Commonwealth University; Social work education; Social classes; Hispanic American college students; Mexican American college students; James Madison University; Belonging (Social psychology); Group identity; Mental health; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Vaccination; English teachers; Machismo; Multiculturalism

City/Location

Richmond (Va.)

Genre

oral histories (literary genre)

Local Genre

oral history; sound recording; text

Type

Sound; Text

Digital Format

audio/mp3

Language

eng

Rights Statement URL

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

Rights

This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held byPaloma Rodriguez Saucedo. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Latino Virginia Project and Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

Collection

Latino Virginia Oral Histories

Contributors

Latino Virginia Project

Source

Interview with Paloma Rodriguez Saucedo (2024-02-29), Latino Virginia Oral History Project, Virginia Commonwealth University.

File Name

lvoh038_RodriguezSaucedoPaloma_interview.mp3

Disciplines

Latin American History | Latin American Languages and Societies | Oral History | Public History | Social History | United States History