Oral history Interview with Pamela Cappas-Toro conducted by Kiara Vazquez (video)

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Title Oral history Interview with Pamela Cappas-Toro conducted by Kiara Vazquez (video)
Creator Cappas-Toro, Pamela
Contributor Vazquez, Kiara
Date 2024-11-26
Spatial Coverage Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico; Florida; Illinois; Texas
Subject Cappas-Toro, Pamela--Interviews; Puerto Ricans; United States. Army.; Veterans; Ethnicity--United States; Sexual harassment; Education, Higher; First-generation college students--United States
Keywords Latinx; Latine; colonization
Description Pamela Cappas-Toro discusses her background growing up in Puerto Rico and moving to the United States. She recounts her path towards higher education as a first-generation student and her service in the military, including issues with sexual and racial harassment. She discusses negative aspects of technology that are used to criminalize lower income communities and profit off of incarcerated people. She also discusses her pathway through higher education and how she needed to adjust during the pandemic when there were different technological demands for professors.
Type Image/MovingImage
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format video/mp4
Extent 00:55:01
Rights
Rights Holder Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6s3j5fc
Collection Name Construyendo Latinidad
State Florida; Illinois; Texas; Puerto Rico
City Cabo Rojo
Setname uum_cliw
ID 2644538
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s3j5fc
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