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Interview no. | R-0801 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.34. Special Research Projects: New Roots |
Project description | Interviews, 2007-ongoing, focus on issues related to Latin American immigration to North Carolina and the formation of Latino communities. Interviewers are conducted by undergraduate students in courses taught by Hannah Gill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interviewees include immigrants, United States-born second generations, professionals who work with immigrants, policy-makers, religious leaders, educators, students, and local business owners. |
Date | 17 April 2015 |
Interviewee | Cabrera, Irene. |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Gutt, Katie. |
Abstract | Irene Cabrera is a visiting professor of Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 2014-2015 academic year. Cabrera was born in Bogotá, Colombia and has lived in the United States for the past three years to study for her second Masters and to teach at the university level. In this interview, Cabrera describes becoming a teaching assistant as an undergraduate and how this led to a career as a professor. She talks at length about her parents’ bedtime stories and how they, along with a faculty mentor, have modeled her style of teaching and interacting with students. She believes that her primary role as a professor is to make her students think deeply about the issues in their community. Cabrera also talks about the problems she sees in the American university system and how those problems are being exported to the university system in Colombia. Finally, Cabrera states that the biggest discomfort she felt during her time in the U.S. was seeing so many Latinos, a group she identifies with, working in the service sector while there is a deficit in Latino leadership at the university. She hopes that the legacy she leaves at UNC is having her students think about these issues of inequality and how who they are and what they do factor into these community issues. |
Subject Topical Other |
Racism and discrimination Higher Education Identity |
Citation | Interview with Irene Cabrera by Katie Gutt, 17 April 2015, R-0801, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | R0801_Audio |