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Tales from Colonia Popular

Tales from Colonia Popular

Wilson, Tamar Diana

Paperback

Central American HistoryMexican HistoryPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1891386190
ISBN13: 9781891386190
Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC
Published: Mar 10 2009
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Creative non-fiction or fiction, Tales from Colonia Popular seeks to describe the lives of people the author met in a squatter settlement in Mexicali, where she lived from 1988 to 1994. They are meant to depict the struggles of the poor in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. They tell the stories of women who live in the colonia, including a woman who received Special Agricultural Workers' amnesty for working in the fields in the Imperial Valley and Salinas, a woman who was the colonia's president, and a woman who works in the maquiladora plants. They also tell stories of men who live in the colonia, including a former garbage picker, a drywaller who longs to give his family more than their income can provide, and a young man who was a coyote's helper when he was a child.

from Only Chiapas? (1995), a poem by the author

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