{"id":1372,"date":"2021-10-04T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/usc-dornsife-historian-records-the-latinx-voices-missing-from-the-covid-conversation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:22:44","slug":"laura-serna-voces-of-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/laura-serna-voces-of-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Dornsife historian records the Latinx voices missing from the COVID conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                          \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3553-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3553-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"USC Dornsife historian records the Latinx voices missing from the COVID conversation\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC Dornsife\u2019s Laura Isabel Serna documents Latinx experiences and perspectives from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Courtesy of Laura Serna.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>USC Dornsife historian records the Latinx voices missing from the COVID conversation<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Laura Isabel Serna of history and Latin American Iberian Cultures at USC Dornsife is committed to making sure that Latinx stories become part of the pandemic\u2019s historical record. <strong>[3\u00bc min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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highlights:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>USC Dornsife historian Laura Isabel Serna documents experiences of the Latinx community during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201cVoces of a Pandemic\u201d project aims to capture a diverse range of voices for posterity.<\/li>\n<li>USC students are invited to contribute to the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1087946\">Laura Isabel Serna<\/a>\u00a0is a cultural historian whose work has focused on media culture in Mexican immigrant communities within the United States and in Mexico, as well as their intersection with consumer culture and gender.<\/p>\n<p>Serna is an associate professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/\">history<\/a>, cinema arts and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/latin-american-and-iberian-cultures\/\">Latin American and Iberian cultures<\/a>\u00a0at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cinema.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC School of Cinematic Arts<\/a>\u00a0and the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/making-cinelandia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She recently spoke about her current focus: an oral history project about the experiences of Latinx communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h2>Talk about your new project documenting the lived Latinx experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/h2>\n<p>This project is a labor of love.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called \u201cVoces of a Pandemic\u201d and it\u2019s a collaboration with the Voces Oral History Center at the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions across the United States and in Puerto Rico. They\u2019re collecting oral histories of different communities and recording their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h2>Why do histories of working-class people have special significance for you?<\/h2>\n<p>My family has a collection that is archived at the Chicano research library at UCLA. It\u2019s a collection of thousands of photographs that belonged to my grandmother, a working-class immigrant from Torre\u00f3n, Coahuila, Mexico, who died in 2007. There are photographs from as far back as the 1890s and a lot of religious ephemera, objects, textiles and decorative items.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the pandemic oral history project is important is because of the way the news is covering it. Latinx people are part of the COVID-19 statistics, but generally you don\u2019t hear their voices. \u2026 When people go back to write the history of this moment, it will be so important to have a rich description of both the challenges and resilience and of how the pandemic unfolded for people, the majority of whom didn\u2019t get to work from home.<\/p>\n<h2>Can you describe some of the oral histories you\u2019ve collected so far?<\/h2>\n<p>One of my first interviews was with a pastor who works with Spanish-speaking communities. He described helping people navigate death and grieving in a radically changed atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Another interview was with a USC graduate student who lost her grandfather. It shed a lot of light on the experiences of first-gen students in higher education. Her father also had COVID and was in a rehab hospital for a long time. It was very difficult for her to balance the demands of her program and what was happening in her own family and her community. It was really moving to talk to her.<\/p>\n<h2>What are some things that you hope that historians will write about this moment when it comes to Latinx communities and the different COVID-19 challenges?<\/h2>\n<p>This may be a repeated lesson in the long arc of history, but there\u2019s definitely this idea that certain people deserve to be sheltered and cared for, and then other people are there to serve them.<\/p>\n<p>It offers lessons about what happens when people are not allowed to be full participants in civic life. Some populations \u2014 like those my colleague\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1032085\">Juan De Lara<\/a>, [associate professor of American studies and ethnicity and director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/latinx\/main\/\">USC Dornsife Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies<\/a>], works with, including warehouse workers \u2014 are seen as expendable and somehow less deserving of care than other populations. I\u2019m not interviewing farmworkers, but they are another category of people who continued to work without a lot of protections \u2026 so that we can eat.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an intersection of racialization, socioeconomic status and notions of citizenship and who belongs that I believe will be highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean to minimize certain experiences. But it\u2019s also a very different experience from people who are still working in warehouses, in retail establishments and in the fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/192409\/laura-isabel-serna-usc-latinx-stories-covid-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>See USC News for the full Q&amp;A &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>USC students who would like to add their stories to Serna\u2019s collection can <a href=\"mailto:lserna@cinema.usc.edu\">email her<\/a> for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-related-stories \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-related-stories\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n    \n                  <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/why-low-covid-19-vaccination-among-children\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >Why are COVID-19 vaccination rates among children so low? 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