Title	Interview with Regina Bernadino
Interviewee	Bernadino, Regina
Interviewer	Miehl, Erica
Summary	Regina Bernadino (27) talks to her friend Erica T. Miehl (26) about her emotional struggle to find her identity as a child.
Content	02:23 (track 1) Regina talks about her mixed background, her father was from Haiti, her mother Argentinean of Italian descent. 10:30 (track 1) Regina talks about what a happy childhood she had in Argentina and about how when she left and came to the United States she felt so different here. 3:50 (track 2) She remembers how different people in her life have influenced her own views about her identity, including friends and people she did not get along with. 11:25 As a perfectionist, as someone who likes to be in control, Regina struggle to define herself and being able to do so has been an emotional breakthrough. 13:30 She likes Miami now, but remembers hating it, not so much for what it was, but for what it represented: her being uprooted from Argentina against her will.
Note	Regina Bernadino identifies as South American, speaks Bilingual Spanish/English; Erica Miehl identifies as American, speaks English
Keyword	ethnicity Hispanic women Haiti Argentina grandparents memories of former times family members mother father immigration stories memories of growing up marriage divorce favorite foods memories of growing up school day memories childhood
Genre	Oral histories (document genres) sound recordings
Project Description	The interview was conducted as part of the StoryCorps Historias initiative, and this copy is housed at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries.
Creation Date	1/24/2010
Interview Location	Miami (Fla.)
Physical Description	2 streaming audio files (15:37 min.; 17:20 min.)
Language	eng
Repository	University of Miami. Library. Cuban Heritage Collection
Collection Title	StoryCorps Historias
Collection No.	CHC5246
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Object ID	chc5246000101
Kaltura Reference	123;1_iev2muwo
Interview No.	MBX006277
Type	Sound
Format	audio/mp3

Interview with Regina Bernadino

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