{"id":31604,"date":"2020-03-16T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=31604"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T22:56:19","slug":"weise-receives-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/weise-receives-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Weise receives grant to transform a podcast into a YouTube series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Julie Wise is a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Weise, an associate professor of history, has been awarded a $50,000 public-engagement grant to take her Nuestro South project to the next level, building on a successful podcast series<\/a> to create a five-part YouTube series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n YouTube series will showcase the long history of Latinx life in the \nDeep South, celebrating 100 years of Latinx culture and contributions in\n the region. The grant was awarded by the Whiting Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weise\u2019s\n work will build on a previous seed grant she received in 2018, also \nfrom the Whiting Foundation, which was matched by the dean of the \nCollege of Arts and Sciences. She used the funding to collaborate with a\n team of media-savvy Latinx community leaders and college students to \ncreate the Nuestro South podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The podcast filters historical \nscholarship on Latinx people in the South through the lens of youth who \nare discovering and celebrating their roots in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis \nnew dimension in my career has been unexpected and wonderful as I work \nwith brilliant partners to provide the region\u2019s Latinx youth an \nopportunity to discover the histories of their forebears,\u201d Weise said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phil\n Scher, divisional dean for social science in the College of Arts and \nSciences, said the award stands out because it helps make research \naccessible to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProfessor Weise has achieved \nsomething important for any scholar: She has been able to take her \nacademic research and scholarship to new audiences outside of the \nacademy,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Whiting is a wonderful acknowledgement of the \nkind of exemplary public engagement we value so deeply at the University\n of Oregon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weise said that for the hundreds of thousands of \nLatinx youth living in the Deep South, many of whom are children of \nimmigrants who settled during a wave of migration in the 1990s, it can \nbe challenging to understand how they fit into the standard schoolbook \nhistory of a black-and-white South. Yet, the history of Southern Latinx \ncommunities dates back more than a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her 2015 book, \u201cCoraz\u00f3n de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910,<\/a>\u201d\n pioneered scholarship on this under-studied subject, illuminating the \nlives of Mexican merchants and laborers in interwar New Orleans, Mexican\n sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, bracero guest workers in \nArkansas, migrant workers in rural Georgia and immigrant settlement in \nthe exurbs of Charlotte in the 1990s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her book was \npublished, Weise did some radio interviews in the South. Among those who\n heard her was Erik Valera, a nonprofit leader and community activist in\n North Carolina. Valera reached out to Weise to say that he felt the \nstories and insight she presented were very important and that he wanted\n to explore how to make them accessible to others in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\n said he wanted to see the histories from my book on the smartphone of \nevery Latinx young person in the South,\u201d Weise recalls. \u201cAs you can \nimagine, I pretty much fell off my couch. He had faith that the \ncommunity really cared about this history, and he was right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the origin of the podcast and now the YouTube series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\n the new Whiting award, Weise and her collaborators will take an \nextended road trip around the South to shoot and edit the YouTube \nseries. In each stop on their trip, college student hosts will interview\n Southerners about their and their families\u2019 connection to local Latinx \nhistory, retell the stories of Mexican immigration to the area, and \nengage local young people in conversations about the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe \nvideo series and accompanying social media engagement will give Latinx \nyouth a platform to explore their identities, shape their narrative of \nbelonging and see reflections of themselves in historical figures who \nworked, raised families and fought for justice in the U.S. South,\u201d Weise\n said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whiting Public Engagement Program is a national grant \nfounded to champion the public humanities in all its forms and to \nhighlight the roles scholars play in using the humanities to advance \ncommunities around the country. Weise\u2019s grant was one of 14 awarded to \nscholars who are tackling pressing challenges in communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\n judges were deeply impressed with the way Dr. Weise has developed the \nNuestro South collaboration,\u201d said Daniel Reid, executive director of \nthe Whiting Foundation. \u201cThey see her proposed next steps as a model for\n how to bring fresh scholarship to a public who will not only be \ninterested but will be transformed by it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014By Lisa Raleigh, College of Arts and Sciences<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Julie Wise is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Julie Weise, an associate professor of history, has been awarded a $50,000 public-engagement grant to take her Nuestro South project to the next…<\/p>\n

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