The UTSA project is recording Spanish-speaking voices during the pandemic

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The UTSA project is recording Spanish-speaking voices during the pandemic

A woman who disinfects every egg. A mother of two who experienced her first panic attack. A graduate who thought he was witnessing the end of the world.

These were just some of the behaviors and emotions described by San Antonio residents in online video interviews conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of an oral history project developed by Whitney Chappell, a professor of Spanish linguistics at UTSA.

Chappell and three students interviewed over 100 Hispanics from November 2020 to December 2021, some in Spanish, some in English, and some in what the researchers called Spanglish. Chappell said he wanted to focus on the Hispanic community because statistics show they are more negatively affected by the pandemic, get sick more often from the coronavirus and die at higher rates than white Americans.

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