This project celebrates the personal histories of Latinx and Latin American members of the Miami University community in Oxford, Ohio. Narratives of faculty, staff, and students place their lived experiences in hemispheric contexts of continuity and change, loss and gain, identity and belonging, transmigration and adaptation, and reinventing the meaning of “home” over the neoliberal era of the past thirty years.

Life stories are informed by historical forces. The project critically situates the study of Latin America in the context of the people who have embodied its history. Its organization mimics the interconnectedness of the Americas, by highlighting both the structural forces and personal decisions that have formed a unique Latin/x community in a rural midwestern college town.