Latin American HUM

Fig.1. Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and her book "The  Undocumented Americans", Harvard University, Immigration Initiative at Harvard.           Today's blog is based on one of the broadcasts of the LatinoUSA radio station, which was on air on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. I listened to the program a couple days later, on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. The transmission is entitled "The American Dream Daughter: A Conversation With Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio" and the host who directed it was Maria Hinojosa. The program addressed issues of the life of Karla Cornejo and their presence in her book entitled "The Undocumented Americans." It is a very interesting interview that I really enjoyed listening to.           What I learned from their conversation is that there is a mental condition called survivor guilt, which refers to the fact that a person can feel guilty for having overcome certain adversities in their life, comparing themse...

FRESH FRUIT, BROKEN BODIES by Seth Holmes, 2013 Fig. 1. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Book Cover,   Seth Holmes, 2013.           Today's post is a Book Review of the text entitled Fresh Fruits, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes published in April 2013. The author's objective is to give a perspective of the way an important sector of the country lives, which are farmworkers. They come from other countries, mainly Mexico and Latin America. According to the author, “they are forced to migrate for themselves and their families to survive” (Holmes 17). In the same way, it expresses the inequalities, injustices, and difficulties that these workers must go through. The audience for which this book is directed can be considered young people and adults, who may have more awareness and empathy with the stories told. It is a book that is very well constructed, properly divided into chapters, and that is also written by a physician and anthropologist, making him the idea...