Watch: “Chef’s Table: Christina Martinez” from Netflix and  “Undocumented and Black in America,” from Define American. Read: The Immigrant Income Gap, Harvard Business Review Listen: “Immigrating While Queer,” The Public Radio’s Podcast

• Chef’s Table uses Christina’s life long connection to barbacoa to walk us through her life story. She was born into the life of barbacoa making and was married into it, making her a “master” at preparing barbacoa. Once she fled Mexico and came to the United States it was her skill to cook that allowed her to make money to send home for her daughter. And when she lost that job, due to her employers learning she was undocumented when she asked for their help, it was her love and skill to make barbacoa that allowed her to start her business and make it where she is today.
• Christina faced challenges due to her identity as a women, a minority and an undocumented  immigrant. At just 17 her early life was taken by her due to her being a female and stuck in an unhappy marriage for two years. Once she entered the United States it became worse as being undocumented was seen as part of her identity. Limiting her in the work place and from fully helping her daughter to come into the United States.
• An individual who is both undocumented and black will be at a disadvantage compared to someone who is undocumented and white. The black individual will have to deal with the stereotypes and discriminations of being black because that is something that is physical and clear unlike the stereotypes and discriminations of being undocumented cannot be placed on someone with just a glance.

Garde: 4/5