Latin American HUM

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...

          The radio program Latino USA presented a beautiful story about The Migrant Student Club during their transmission the past August 18 th of the current year 2020. I listened to this program on September 1st 2020, and from this audio I learned that there are thousands of students from immigrant families, whose responsibility is not just going to school, but also helping with their house mortgage, bills, clothes, and grocery at home, because their parents’ salary isn’t enough to pay basic needs. To do so, this program focuses in a group of teenagers who travel to states in the north of the country and spend their summer as farmworkers. This theme relates to the class because basically all of them traveled from Latin American countries when they were very young, and their parents came here looking for opportunities in a developed country. There are differences among cultures in those southern countries, however, they all share the same tough childhoo...