UNC-CH Department of Music

"My parents are from Ecuador. They immigrated to the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s to California, where I’m from. ... I wanted to study and research this topic as a way to say, people from Latin America have been here in the US literally since 1783 or even before. And I’m not talking about the Southwest either, because that’s obvious, through the 19th century, becoming a part of the United States, but I’m talking about Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, of course, Boston, and even in the South."

Professor David Garcia recently joined the Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ podcast, The Institute, to share his research and his current project, Border Crossings: Latin U.S. History We Weren’t Taught. Listen to the full episode or read the transcript on our website. (link in bio)
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📸: Megan Mendenhall / UNC Office of Research Communications