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Raza World Visions is a Latinx public affairs and cultural arts radio show on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara. The show is hosted by DJ El Profe Urbano Montez, with news and commentary by DJ Mercy Brown, and airs on Saturdays 10-11 p.m. during the "safe harbor" hour that allows for unexpurgated programming. The show explores Latinx life, culture, and politics in local and global contexts. The DJs and guests offer honest assessments—and continual reassessments—of how power and counter-power really operate in Latinx communities vis-à-vis the world at large. Content alternates between Thematic, Music, and Featured Artist shows.
Raza World Visions features interviews with activists, academics, students, and laypeople from all walks of life throughout the barrios, favelas, and banlieues of the world. The show also has the most awesome Raza playlist you’ll find anywhere because it includes a little from everywhere! We welcome listener feedback and insights on Raza life, culture, and politics and can be contacted at RazaWorldVisionsUCSB@gmail.com.
DJ & Host El Profe Urbano Montez
DJ and Host El Profe Urbano Montez es un bato del barrio Magnolia in Houston, Tejas, now working as an educator in Califas. His style is TexMex polka meets punk with lots of world riffs thrown in, mostly from Latin America, and a Harley Fatboy rumbling ‘cause he’s always on the run.
DJ Mercy Brown is a Goth Chicanx from the San Fernando Valley with her own vampire vibe radio show—The Hotel Bella Muerte (at midnight of course until 1:00 a.m.). She provides news and commentary through weekly Matutinos, or morning news briefings from the Cuban Revolutionary practice of recounting important events and struggles in world revolutionary history.
DJ & Commentator Mercy Brown
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El Barrio, Pt. 3 (on Immigration & Grassroots Organizing)
Raza World Visions radio show features an interview with Julissa Peña, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Immigrant Legal Defense Center. The child of immigrants, Julissa was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, and is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In this third part of the Raza World Visions 3-Part Series on the Barrio, she will discuss the critical state of immigrant precarity, immigration system injustices, lessons for activists and organizers, and ways to volunteer in this humanitarian organization.
El Barrio, Pt. 2 (on Class Stratification)
Raza World Visions radio show features an interview, discussion, and poetry reading with Jonathan Gómez, PhD. Originally from the City Terrace barrio in East Los Angeles, Jonathan attended East Los Angeles College and UC Santa Cruz, and received a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Black and Chicanx Studies from UC Santa Barbara. He currently is an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Jonathan is an organic barrio intellectual and grassroots organizer, activist, and poet. He opens the second part of the Raza World Visions 3-Part Series on The Barrio, and discusses barrio class stratifications, the carceral apparatus surrounding barrios, and internal colonialism, with a featured poetry reading shouting out "¡Chále, eses, we fight back!"
El Barrio, Pt. 1 (on Political History of Barrio Formation)
Raza World Visions radio show opens the first part of the Thematic Series on The Barrio. This inaugural show focuses on the political history of barrio formations, with special attention to the economic role of underdeveloped barrios and barrio surplus and proletarian labor in relation to the broader economy of capitalism. This show also features a Matutino, or morning news briefing on important evens in world revolutionary history, focusing on the complex racial dimensions Mendez v. Westminster legal case that challenged the legal segregation of Mexican American children in schools, which anticipated the Brown v. Board of Education several years later.