Latine Southern Ohio / Latine del Sur de Ohio: A Bilingual Oral History Collection / Una Colección de Historia Oral Bilingüe
Title
Interview with Hector Reffit
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Collection
Latine Southern Ohio / Latine del Sur de Ohio
Interview Date
9-10-2022
Interviewee
Hector Reffit, Jennifer Reffit
Transcriber
Celine Lamb
Original Language of Interview
English
Translator
Ileana Perez
Contributor Affiliation / Organization
Southern Ohio Folklife, Inc.
Interview Length
1 hour 15 minutes
Publisher
Center for Public History at Shawnee State University
Recording Format
audio
Description
Hector discusses his childhood in Mexico, his and his siblings’ adoption process and move to Minford Ohio. He also discusses his changing relationship to religion throughout his life and his calling to become a pastor. Finally, Hector addresses some of the challenges he has faced as a person of Mexican descent and the challenges, particularly related to language, that members of the southern Ohio Latino community faces.
Recommended Citation
Patterson, Cassie and Lamb, Celine, "Interview with Hector Reffit" (2022). Latine Southern Ohio / Latine del Sur de Ohio: A Bilingual Oral History Collection / Una Colección de Historia Oral Bilingüe. 1.
https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/latnesouthernohio/1
Transcript
LSO20220910_Reffitt,Hector_transcript-translation-English-Spanish(revised).pdf (225 kB)
Translation en Espanol