Agriculture and Drugs
Why Ramos argues that the labor conditions of farm workers and the addiction to methamphetamine are connected?
How seeing these social issues from a health and ecological perspective could possibly change the way they are addressed by institutions and the Latinx communities?
The Crystal Meth Epidemic Plaguing Fresno- Vice and Paola Ramos
In the Second half of this section of Finding Latinx, Paola Ramos touches upon reproductive health and the real and symbolic borders ostracizing Latinas and LGBTQ+ youth. Ramos also explores the correlation between gun violence, ethnic discrimination, and mental health.
Class Presentation (s)
Rhetorical and Concrete Violence Against Latines
The powerful memorial for the El Paso shooting’s youngest victim
El Paso as”ground zero” of the border debate [and violence]
The El Paso shooting, in many ways, was the culmination of all the stereotypes society has otherized us with, all the barriers society has pushed the Latinx down with and all the stigmas society has taught its members to internalize. It was a wound that exposed not just the pain that’s inflicted by piercing bullets but all the different manifestations and facets of that pain: the pain of longtime discrimination. (Ramos, 87)
Following and expanding on Ramos’ argument, how do anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric from politicians and media personalities, the rejection and dismantling of ethnic studies, patriarchal systems of oppression, and the lack of gun regulation are connected?