Selena And Me

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Maria Garcia can still remember the first time she saw Selena Quintanilla on TV: red lips, brown skin, big hoops. Maria was just 7 years old, new to the United States, and figuring out how to belong. For her and so many others, it was nothing short of a revolution, to see a Mexican-American woman, with working class roots, take pride in who she was, and have the world love her for it. And then, suddenly, on March 31st of 1995, Selena was gone.

A quarter century later, Journalist Maria Garcia investigates Selena’s legacy and what Selena can tell us about race, class, body politics, and Latinx identity. This is the first episode of a new podcast called Anything For Selena — a collaboration between WBUR and Futuro Studios, available wherever you can find podcasts.

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0:40.0	Foodtooler.
0:51.0	From Foodtooler Media, it's LatinoUSA. I'm Maria Inojosa and today, anything for Selena.
1:00.0	Dear listener, today we have something super, super special for you. It's an episode from our newest podcast, Anything for Selena.
1:13.0	And this is a collaboration between Futuro Studios and WBUR in Boston.
1:19.0	The podcast is a deep dive into Selena Quintanillas' lasting impact on Latino identity and American belonging, hosted by journalist Maria Inojosa.
1:29.0	And I'm going to hand things over to Maria right now.
1:37.0	If I was somehow asked to say only one thing about the place I'm from, it would be that it has this unforgettable smell when it rains.
1:49.0	It's slightly floral, but mostly it's this very specific, cool, earthy desert aroma. And there's usually a calm, clear breeze, which carries these concentrated little pockets of fragrance.
2:07.0	Oh my God, there it is.
2:10.0	This smell comes from the Creosow bush, a resilient plant that thrives only in this particularly erred landscape.
2:18.0	Especially after a thunderstorm, the Creosow bush releases a bunch of these oil compounds into the air, stuff found in citrus, rosemary, pines.
2:30.0	And it just smells like the earth exhales.
2:36.0	Creosow can live for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
2:41.0	It's one of the oldest living things on the planet. And here, this ancient brush grows at the foot of the Franklin Mountains and the valley they nest so below.
2:54.0	Cutting through the desert valley is the Rio Grande, dividing two cities and two countries.
3:01.0	Alpasso, Texas to the north, and Sudathuadis in Mexico to the south.
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