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Fronteras
by Texas Public Radio
"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.
Episodes
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Fronteras: San Antonio’s Vincent Valdez creates a public remembrance through his larger-than-life artworks
Valdez, whose work takes on social injustice and underrepresented communities, is one of 20 MacArthur Fellows recognized this year across a variety of fields.
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Fronteras: Going beyond the taco — ‘Tacos of Texas’ podcast returns for season seis
Taco journalist Mando Rayo explores the stories, history, and culture of Tacos and the people who make them in the Lone Star State.
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Fronteras: Exploring the little-known history of the Republic of the Rio Grande
What we know now as the Rio Grande Valley once rose to become the Republic of the Rio Grande. Podcaster Brandon Seale explores the topic in a new documentary.
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Fronteras: Twenty years of consequences — Chronicling the lifelong impact of San Antonio gang life in the ‘90s
The book "Homeboys Forever" by sociologist Avelardo Valdez examines how violence, addiction, and imprisonment affected the lives of young gang members in San Antonio.
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Fronteras: From the barrio to a prison siege — The life and impact of San Antonio drug lord, Fred Carrasco
A San Antonio native revisits the life of Fred Gómez Carrasco and the 1974 prison standoff that captured national attention. His podcast looks beyond the headlines to explore Carrasco, the people involved and the lasting impact of those events.
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Fronteras: An endangered Latinx landmark — The fight to preserve San Antonio’s Alazán-Apache Courts
Community activism has saved the city's oldest public housing units. It was recently named a 2026 Endangered Latinx Landmark by Latinos in Heritage Conservation.
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Fronteras: From Latinas with tender hearts to tías locas — How storytelling can shatter cultural stereotypes
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has spent her career writing to break down barriers and reach out to those who may not have access to academia. Her books center on the cultural challenges many Brown girls face.
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Fronteras: New research examines the role Latino identity plays in individuals across America
The Pew Research Center finds that while Latino identity is a major factor in people's lives, identity is not singuarly defined culturally or politically.
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Fronteras: Revisiting the 1918 Porvenir massacre — How border construction puts the future of the site in danger
In 1918, 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys were killed in the remote West Texas community of Porvenir. The commemorative site is now in danger of being bulldozed and cut off by federal border wall construction.
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Fronteras: The Latino Community Foundation expands support in Texas as immigration enforcement ramps up
The California-based organization has granted $350,000 to ten organizations in the Southwest to support them with legal defense, community protection, and rapid response.
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Fronteras: No longer just ‘deportees’ — The search to identify the passengers of the Los Gatos plane crash
Writer Tim Z. Hernandez has spent nearly two decades working to identify the Mexican nationals who were killed in the 1948 incident.
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Fronteras: Writer Rudy Ruiz explores the complexities of living between two nations and cultures
The South Texas native discusses his works and how they're influenced by the duality that exists living on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Fronteras: ‘Detention is everywhere’ — Photo series highlights impact of private ICE facilities on rural landscapes
Photographer Marni Shindelman's series, "Restore the Night Sky" documents the effects of light pollution at 45 private ICE detention centers across the U.S.
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Fronteras: How a new young adult book reclaims and reframes San Antonio’s legend of the Donkey Lady
The new book, “The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable,” retells a haunting San Antonio legend by inviting children and adults alike to consider new moral dilemmas.
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Fronteras: Sustainable fashion meets an iconic Chicano aesthetic in 'Runway Rasquachic'
Local fashion designers took high fashion to the streets last month to showcase clothes characterized as "rasquachic."
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Fronteras: How the dismantling of a key Voting Rights Act provision will affect Texas communities
The Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law, banned racial discrimination in voting and enforced the 15th Amendment right for Black men to vote.
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Fronteras: Essay collection ‘Migrant Heart’ details the power of forgetting and remembering
Author Reyna Grande writes about the struggles of assimilation and the healing powers of storytelling in her new memoir.
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Fronteras: Author Reyna Grande reframes her traumatic immigration story in ‘Migrant Heart’
In her latest essay collection, author Reyna Grande reflects on her difficult experiences migrating to the U.S. from Mexico.
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Fronteras: Why colonias exist and persist along the Texas-Mexico border
A new Brookings article examines the ways colonias in the Rio Grande Valley continue to be disinvested and what needs to be done to improve conditions.
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Fronteras: Cultural heritage as a tool to address and adapt to climate change
The Climate Heritage Network is an organization looking to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement by tackling climate change through heritage, arts, and culture.
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Fronteras: ‘En vivo desde Saluté’ — Exhibit documents over two decades of iconic St. Mary’s bar
The exhibit showcases posters, pictures, flyers, and other memorabilia that were mainstays of Saluté International Bar for 25 years.
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Fronteras: ¿Habla civil rights? MACRI’s 2026 Symposium brings leaders together to discuss contemporary issues
MACRI’s annual symposium brings speakers from all over the country to speak about contemporary civil rights issues and how they affect people today.
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Fronteras: ‘It speaks to everyone, every migrant’ — New poetry collection highlights the refugee experience
From the desert into the detention center, "Peregrina/Pilgrim" shares the immigrant experience with readers.
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Fronteras: Coercion vs. collaboration – How a better foreign policy model can manage migration
A new report from the George W. Bush Institute argues that many border policies only provide short-term solutions to illegal immigration.
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Fronteras: ‘The Selena Reader’ examines the impact of the Queen of Tejano through an academic lens
Selena's legacy is explored in the literary collection through essays, short stories, poems, and memoirs.
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Fronteras: New book offers a guide on how to explore the richness of Latino communities through oral history
"Embodied Encuentros" outlines the best practices in gathering and archiving the oral experiences of Latino communities.
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Fronteras: New report provides a look into the struggles and successes of Latino arts and culture organizations
The "A Mirror and a Map" report by NALAC examines how these groups are faring in factors ranging from financial stability to leadership structures.
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Fronteras: How history will move forward after the fall of late labor leader César Chávez
A historic preservationist Sehila Mota Casper discusses how the history and legacy of the farmworkers movement will evolve following new revelations against Chávez.
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Fronteras: How the forgotten Spanish mission of Los Adaes played a role in the founding of Texas
The book "Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas" explores the colonial history of this all-but-forgotten Spanish fort and mission.
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Fronteras: ‘Education is in grave danger’ — Film highlights fight against censorship in higher ed
"Censorship at Texas A&M" is a film that follows prominent writers and activists as they bring attention to the crackdown of race and gender studies at Texas universities.
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Fronteras: Novel 'Curtains of Rain' is a love letter for those who live on the margins
The new bilingual novel follows protagonist Solitaria, a queer Chicana returning to her hometown on the South Texas border after fleeing 15 years prior.
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Fronteras: ‘Now I Surrender’ tells the epic story of Apache resistance
The new book by acclaimed Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue weaves the past and present to tell the story of the Apache surrender in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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Fronteras: 6,000 years of art — How the Pecos River style murals influenced Mesoamerican cosmology
Archeologist Carolyn Boyd discusses recent discoveries made at the Pecos River-style mural site on the Texas-Mexico border near Del Rio.
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FRONTERAS: ‘Shakespeare in Tongues’ explores how the Bard’s works are being used to reframe migration and colonialism
The book is part of a series that explores how contemporary movements shed new light on Shakespeare's work.
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Fronteras: How tariffs, immigration enforcement are creating a ‘chilling effect’ in the Texas economy
A new study by the Brookings Institution examines how federal policies are causing harm to Latino-owned businesses across the state.
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Fronteras: A 300-year mystery solved — Archaeologists discover evidence of the lost Mission Espíritu Santo
An archaeology team from Texas Tech University and the Texas Historical Commission recently discovered remnants of the mission on a private ranch near Presidio La Bahía in West Texas.
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Fronteras: ‘Live from America’ examines the 70-year evolution of Spanish-language TV in the U.S.
The book Live from America: How Latino TV Conquered the U.S. details the powerful figures who worked behind the scenes to make Spanish-language media successful.
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Fronteras: Migration Policy Institute discusses ‘chilling effect’ of Trump 2.0 immigration policies
The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute has published an analysis of the Trump administration’s immigration actions one year following his inauguration.
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Fronteras: How a divergence of cultures led to interracial violence in 19th century Texas
Historian Sam W. Haynes explains how a convergence of Mexican, Anglo, and indigenous cultures led to instances of conflict and violence from 1821-1879.
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Fronteras: ‘American Sons’ follows the impact of war on a brotherhood of Marines
The documentary follows the lives of San Antonian JV Villarreal and his Marine brothers while on tour in Afghanistan.
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Fronteras: Harvard scholar explores Mexico’s Mesoamerican past, father’s key role in integration of college sports
Scholar and anthropologist Davíd Carrasco has dedicated much of his career to exploring Mexico’s Mesoamerican past. He is also dedicated to telling the story of his father, David L. Carrasco—an El Paso native who became the first Mexican American head basketball coach at a major U.S. university.
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Fronteras: Esperanza Peace and Justice Center honors community history, culture with Museo del Westside
A former San Antonio ice house is now home to a community museum that celebrates the people, stories, and contributions of the city's historic West Side.
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Fronteras: Witnessing Immigration Court arrests of adults and children by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been ramping up detentions of individuals who appear at Immigration Court for their mandatory hearings, including in San Antonio.
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Fronteras: ‘Of the Sun’ encourages young readers to embrace Indigenous roots, ties to the land
The new children’s book Of the Sun: A Poem for the Land’s First Peoples celebrates the ties that Indigenous peoples still hold to the land.
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Fronteras: ‘Educating the Enemy’ — How Nazi and Mexican children were educated in the Cold War-era borderlands
The book explores the disparities in education between the children of Nazi scientists and the ethnic Mexican children who attended segregated schools in El Paso.
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Fronteras: ‘Detention is everywhere’ — Photo series highlights impact of private ICE facilities on rural landscapes
Photographer Marni Shindelman's series, "Restore the Night Sky" documents the effects of light pollution at 45 private ICE detention centers across the U.S.
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Fronteras: ‘Drought Does Not Know Sanctions’ — Essay dives into complex issues at play in binational 1944 water treaty
University of Michigan PhD candidate Vianey Rueda wrote about the ongoing water conflict between Mexico and the U.S.
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‘Difference doesn’t mean deficient’ — Children's book celebrates neurodiversity, inclusion, and culture
The picture book, "Franky(sito)'s World," highlights the story of a young boy with autism growing up in a multigenerational Latino household.
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Fronteras: ‘Mexican Americans experienced segregation’ — New exhibit breaks down the long fight to desegregate Texas schools
Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD: The Long Fight to End School Segregation details what came before, after, and during the historic court case.
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Fronteras: Evangelizing the New World — Exploring the legend of the 17th-century ‘Lady in Blue’
Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda was believed by many to have bilocated hundreds of times from her monastery in rural Spain to parts of what’s now the American Southwest.
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"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.
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