Fronteras
Texas PR
"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.
Location:
San Antonio, TX
Genres:
World News
Networks:
Texas PR
Description:
"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.
Language:
English
Website:
http://tpr.org/
Episodes
‘Fighting the good fight’ — Artists confront injustice, inequity through ACLU artist-in-residency program
7/3/2025
Artist Vincent Valdez and writer KB Brookins discuss how they're promoting advocacy through the arts as part of the program's 2025-26 term.
Duration:00:24:23
Border Soundscapes Project captures the aural history and identity of the borderland
6/27/2025
A professor in El Paso who lives in the Mexican city of Juárez aimed to capture and document the everyday sounds that are a part of border experience.
Duration:00:24:49
Fronteras: The road to untold history — Latinos in Heritage Conservation preserves Latinx sites and stories
6/20/2025
The group took a long road trip last month through the Southwestern United States with a goal to visit the places that communities value as a connection to their history and culture—and share the untold stories.
Duration:00:21:50
Fronteras: Death of Jonathan Joss highlights systemic disparities in Native and LGBTQ communities
6/13/2025
Joss, a member of the LGBTQ community, was also of Comanche and White Mountain Apache descent. His death highlights a crisis of underreported mental health disparities.
Duration:00:32:04
Fronteras: Former child detainee shares his harrowing immigrant journey in 'Detained'
6/6/2025
D. Esperanza details his 10-month journey from Honduras to the U.S. through reconstructed and translated journal entries.
Duration:00:31:48
Fronteras: ‘It is not just a Native issue’ — Activists raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People
5/30/2025
American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions embarked on a campaign in May to highlight the disproportionate effect of violence against Native women.
Duration:00:26:34
Fronteras: ‘We are Americans’ — Traveling exhibit highlights role of Latinos in WWII
5/23/2025
Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas of World War II examines the themes of citizenship and civil rights that emerged from Latino veterans’ experiences.
Duration:00:21:45
‘They are part of the story’ — Texas Tejano marks 25 years of highlighting undertold state history
5/16/2025
Rudi Rodriguez, the president and founder of the San Antonio-based organization, discusses his fascination with Texas history and his own Tejano heritage.
Duration:00:21:45
Fronteras: ‘Language is part of our identities’ — Breaking down language barriers through community partnerships
5/9/2025
Students in A&M San Antonio's Language and Literacy in Latinx Communities class aim to better understand the socio-economic backgrounds of the city’s Latino populations and their experiences with language.
Duration:00:29:55
Migration Policy Institute breaks down immigration actions during Trump’s first 100 days in office
5/2/2025
MPI Policy Analyst Kathleen Bush-Joseph discusses the firehose of executive actions on immigrations.
Duration:00:24:18
Fronteras: ‘Language is an asset, not a threat’ — Award highlights power of bilingual, Spanish-language children’s books
4/25/2025
Local author Carmen Tafolla and UTSA's Patricia Sánchez discuss the Premio Campoy-Ada and how Spanish literature can serve as a tool for young readers.
Duration:00:23:55
Fronteras: ‘Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers’ highlights the importance of diversity for young readers
4/18/2025
Steena Hernandez said incorporating her own experiences as a dancer in a children’s book highlights the importance of diversity in dance and beyond.
Duration:00:21:45
‘Be who you are, play who you are’ — Two generations of Los Texmaniacs musicians talk career and influences
4/11/2025
Texmaniacs founder Max Baca and his nephew and accordionist, Josh Baca, share stories from the road and about their mentor and friend, Flaco Jimenez.
Duration:00:35:23
Fronteras: ‘The corrido was my canvas’ — Los Inocentes discuss three generations of musical activism
4/4/2025
The musical group was formed three years before San Antonio’s first César Chávez march and has continued using corridos as a form of activism and protest.
Duration:00:21:45
Fronteras: ‘There were heroes during this time’ — YA book blends history, superheroes to tell the history of La Matanza
3/28/2025
"El Rinche: La Matanza" is the third book in a four-part series inspired by the period of state-sanctioned violence against ethnic Mexicans.
Duration:00:27:27
‘Homeland’ explores the evolving sense of belonging in ethnic Mexicans in the U.S.
3/21/2025
Historian Aaron E. Sánchez detailed the different ways ethnic Mexicans viewed, embraced, or rejected their new identities as American citizens.
Duration:00:29:43
Fronteras: Nopales, corazones, and paleteros — McNay exhibit explores 35 years of rasquachismo
3/7/2025
Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto and the McNay Art Museum's Mia Lopez lead a walkthrough of the exhibit, Rasquachismo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility.
Duration:00:29:14
’Chicano art is American art’ — McNay celebrates the impact of Chicano sensibility with ‘Rasquachismo’ exhibit
2/28/2025
Rasquachismo denotes both the scarcity and ingenuity of the predominantly middle- and working-class Latinos. Rasquachismo became reflected in poetry, music, and visual arts fueled by the Chicano movement.
Duration:00:21:45
Fronteras: ‘Midsummer in Marfa’ reimagines Shakespeare for children with a Tex-Mex twist
2/21/2025
In a true Austin-San Antonio collaboration, the Austin Symphony Orchestra will premiere the multi-genre take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream March 3-5.
Duration:00:26:54
‘Improving water infrastructure is essential’ — 2-year study examines arsenic in RGV colonias' drinking water
2/14/2025
A group of researchers from Texas A&M University and Methodist Healthcare Ministries collaborated to investigate the presence of arsenic and other water contaminants in colonias in South Texas border communities.
Duration:00:29:15