Latino Virginia 

Co-investigators: Gabriela León-Pérez, Ph.D. and Daniel Morales, Ph.D.

Funding: VCU Quest Fund; VCU Transformative Learning Fund; CHS Dean's Research Grant

The Latino Virginia Oral History Project seeks to document the migration and integration experiences of Latinos in a state that has historically been defined by white-Black relations. Specifically, this study is conducting oral history interviews with foreign- and US-born Latino residents of Virginia to chronicle their migration history, successes, challenges, and contributions. In addition to the research component (publications and presentations), Latino Virginia has an important public sociology component. Part of the project includes creating a website that will serve as a digital archive of the oral histories that we collect. With participants’ permission, the team will include audio-recordings and transcripts of the interviews, photographs of the interviewees, as well as reflections and research posters created by student interviewers.