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
Fronteras: San Antonio’s Mexican cookbook collection the ‘beating heart’ of Mexican cuisine and culture
10/17/2025
Mexican chef Pati Jinich and UT San Antonio's Amy Rushing talk about the signficance of the food and history highlighted in the collection.
Duration:00:22:03
Fronteras: From churches to barrios — 13 endangered Latinx landmarks embody culture, resilience, and migration
10/10/2025
The national nonprofit Latinos in Heritage Conservation released a list of landmarks that hold cultural and historical significance, and face demolition, neglect, or otherwise uncertain futures.
Duration:00:28:35
Fronteras: A deep dive into the Spanish conquest of Texas, New Mexico
10/3/2025
Archeologist Jorge Luis García Ruiz documents the movement north of Spanish explorers in his book, Presidio: Soldiers of the King in New Mexico.
Duration:00:24:17
Fronteras: New report examines devastating impact of migration policy changes
9/26/2025
The August report by MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, finds the changes have left many immigrants trapped in a cycle of physical, emotional, and institutional violence.
Duration:00:23:03
Fronteras: ‘Sex work is work’ — Documentary examines the push to decriminalize the sex industry
9/19/2025
Sex Work: It’s Just a Job explores the move to decriminalize sex work, and confronts the racism, sexism, and transphobia that can fuel violent police crackdowns.
Duration:00:24:06
Fronteras: ‘Surviving the ICE Age’ — How deportations and detentions impact U.S. citizen children of immigrants
9/12/2025
Sociologist Joanna Dreby interviewed 99 young adults in New York to examine the impacts of enforcement-first approaches to immigration policy.
Duration:00:27:17
Fronteras: Regenerating the land and indigenous connections through the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
9/5/2025
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project and The Conservation Fund hope to reconnect with indigeneity and reintroduce the buffalo back to South Texas.
Duration:00:31:18
Fronteras: ‘It’s unwritten history’— The years-long fight to offer American Indian/Native Studies in Texas public schools
8/29/2025
School districts across the state now have the option to offer American Indian/Native Studies as an elective course.
Duration:00:34:57
Fronteras: ‘They simply ceased to exist’ — New report aims to identify those killed during state-sanctioned killings
8/22/2025
The recent report, A Matter of Justice: The Uninvestigated Homicides of La Matanza, aims to pursue justice for the victims of la matanza.
Duration:00:25:26
Fronteras: ‘It comes from the soul’ — Remembering the life, legacy of conjunto pioneer Flaco Jiménez
8/15/2025
San Antonians remember Flaco Jiménez, who died July 31, at the age of 86.
Duration:00:22:47
$1,000 and a free flight home — Examining the Trump administration's self-deportation campaign
8/8/2025
The article "Can the Trump Administration's 'Self-Deportation' Campaign Succeed?" by the non-partisan think tank, Migration Policy Institute addresses the unanswered questions surrounding the administration's self-deportation push.
Duration:00:24:33
Border Vigil collaborates to ID immigrants in Eagle Pass, pay tribute to lives lost
8/1/2025
Border Vigil in Eagle Pass has been holding monthly vigils to remember the immigrants who have drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. The group’s members have recently been receiving training in recovering human remains at the border.
Duration:00:23:50
Fronteras: Film ‘Spring of the Vanishing’ sheds lights on dozens of people who disappeared at the hands of Mexican marines
7/25/2025
The documentary tells of the dozens of men and boys who were missing and murdered by Mexican marines during a period of four months in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Duration:00:30:22
Researchers give voice to immigrant families, break down the costs of being undocumented
7/18/2025
Researchers aim to humanize immigrants by sharing their stories.
Duration:00:26:04
Remembering San Antonio’s 1921 flood in the wake of devastation across the Texas Hill Country
7/11/2025
A devastating flood that occurred over a century ago in San Antonio's historic West Side closely mirrors the July 4 tragedy of the Hill Country.
Duration:00:21:49
‘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