Archive for 'indigenous peoples'
Woodburn residents’ son-in-law among seven migrant Oaxacans missing for over a year
An email from one of the ESL teachers with whom I work alerted me to the fact that, for one family I know, the dangers of border crossings have struck really close to home. A family member is among the border crossing casualties of the past year.
Estimates of how many Mexicans die every year attempting [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2008 under Oaxaca, farm workers, immigration, indigenous peoples, migrant workers, undocumented.
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Another face of racism
Racism in modern-day Latin America is a topic that has not provoked a lot of discourse, either popular or academic. Changing this situation is one of my goals, since acknowledging that a problem exists is one of the first steps to change. My one piece of creative writing ever focused on tensions between educated mestizo [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2005 under Latin America, indigenous peoples, poverty, racism.
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