Episode 0: Season 1 Trailer
Welcome to the Amplifying identities, the podcast, my name is Dr. Priscilla Martinez and I am a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. And I’m a specialist in the US-Mexico borderlands as well as a trained oral, public, and digital historian.
And, this semester, Spring 2024, I have the privilege of teaching one of my dream courses titled, “Digital History: Storytelling and Podcasting.” Don’t worry I won’t bore you with all the digital theories and historical methods covered by the course. Instead, in this podcast Amplifying Identities, I’d like to share with you some of the stories my students and I uncovered and constructed during our class.
In this, our first season, we focused on local San Antonio history in the late-nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centuries as we worked with several local archives including the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas A&M San Antonio, the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum, and our very own Special Collections at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Topics for this season vary and range from racial integration in education in SAISD, to the creation of SA’s Hemisphere Park for the World Fair, political activism during the Chicano Movement, labor activism in South Texas for farmworker’s rights, to stories of important Fiesta traditions in the making of queer San Antonio, these are just some of the many stories we are excited to share with you in our inaugural season.
So sit back and listen as we Amplify some local stories for you. You can find us wherever you listen to podcasts. Please listen, rate, and subscribe, to catch our latest episodes. And follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @AmpIdPod for some behind the scenes content as well.
Catch you in the next story!
