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: ‘Educating the Enemy’ — How Nazi and Mexican children were educated in the Cold War-era borderlands
12/5/2025
The book explores the disparities in education between the children of Nazi scientists and the ethnic Mexican children who attended segregated schools in El Paso.
Duration:00:22:05
Fronteras: ‘Detention is everywhere’ — Photo series highlights impact of private ICE facilities on rural landscapes
11/28/2025
Photographer Marni Shindelman's series, "Restore the Night Sky" documents the effects of light pollution at 45 private ICE detention centers across the U.S.
Duration:00:22:03
Fronteras: ‘Drought Does Not Know Sanctions’ — Essay dives into complex issues at play in binational 1944 water treaty
11/21/2025
University of Michigan PhD candidate Vianey Rueda wrote about the ongoing water conflict between Mexico and the U.S.
Duration:00:29:26
‘Difference doesn’t mean deficient’ — Children's book celebrates neurodiversity, inclusion, and culture
11/14/2025
The picture book, "Franky(sito)'s World," highlights the story of a young boy with autism growing up in a multigenerational Latino household.
Duration:00:22:05
Fronteras: ‘Mexican Americans experienced segregation’ — New exhibit breaks down the long fight to desegregate Texas schools
11/7/2025
Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD: The Long Fight to End School Segregation details what came before, after, and during the historic court case.
Duration:00:23:46
Fronteras: Evangelizing the New World — Exploring the legend of the 17th-century ‘Lady in Blue’
11/2/2025
Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda was believed by many to have bilocated hundreds of times from her monastery in rural Spain to parts of what’s now the American Southwest.
Duration:00:22:04
Fronteras: ‘Tacos of Texas’ podcast dishes out another season of food, culture, and community
10/24/2025
The podcast's fifth season dives into taco culture, from the women who serve as the backbone of Mexican cooking, to the role that food can play in politics.
Duration:00:29:40
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