These
pages contain images and information from a week long Senior Fellows Seminar
I attended in June 1999. The Seminar, organized by the Mexican American
Solidarity Foundation (please visit their site through my links page),
took place in Mexico City and the state of Oaxaca. The purpose of the
Seminar was to inform U.S. educators on the present political and educational
state of affairs in Mexico. All of the photos here were taken by me and
are copyright. Please do not reproduce them or use them in any way without
permission.
This
gentleman lives in a remote village in one of the poorest states (Oaxaca)
in Mexico. He is a migrant worker, migrating both within Mexico and between
Mexico and the United States. Each migration is heroically etched in his
face. This proud, hardworking "bracero" face represents what
we typically refer to as "illegal." You will see many such "illegal"
faces in these pages and I hope when you have finished browsing them that
you too will understand that ningun ser humano es inlegal.
ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION IN MEXICO