Hello and welcome back to Amplifying Identities, a podcast that explores stories from the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and beyond. We are your hosts Bailey and Breahna. We’re both graduate students at UTSA, and this semester we’ve been working with Dr. Priscilla Martinez in our oral history methods course to build a whole season of episodes using the incredible oral history collections from Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History. As a class we’ve explored some of the big historical questions that connect our communities across the borderlands, uncovered people’s individual narratives and experiences, and constructed episodes to inform you, our audience.

Today’s episode is titled “Roots in New Soil: Building Vietnamese-American Life in Texas,” and we’re exploring the journey of Vietnamese refugees who arrived in Texas after the ...