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  • The Homelands Blog

    Alan Weisman on South American speaking tour

    Homelands’ co-founder and senior producer Alan Weisman is spending nearly a month in Colombia and Ecuador giving talks and interviews about his two most recent books, The World Without Us and Countdown.

  • The Homelands Blog

    Alan Weisman: Have fewer kids

    This month, as part of a special issue on the environment, VICE Magazine asked leading thinkers to weigh in with their ideas about what to do about climate change. Below is Homelands’ Alan Weisman‘s essay, based …

  • Barbara Ferry, Deborah Begel

    World Views

    Luis and Negra

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    Barbara Ferry, Deborah Begel

    World Views

    Luis and Negra

    Mexican-American writer Luis Alberto Urrea returns to the slums of Tijuana, where he worked as a young man, to see a woman he knew as a girl. His story, for This American Life, explores the sometimes uneasy relationship between “first world” writers and their “third world” subjects.

    In the late 1970s, Luis Alberto Urrea was working in the slums of Tijuana and Ana María “Negra” Calderón was a barefoot young girl, the unschooled daughter of garbage pickers. Nearly 25 years later, Luis is now a celebrated writer, winner of the American Book Award, and a tenured professor in Chicago.

    Back in Tijuana, Negra is struggling to raise her children and those of her sister, who was killed by her husband. In this piece Luis travels back to Tijuana to see Negra after an absence of seven years. He explores his sometimes uneasy relationship and the obligations that “first world” writers have toward their “third world” subjects.

    Date

    October 2003

    Other Contributor(s)

    Alan Weisman, Sandy Tolan

    Outlets

    This American Life

    Tags

    Themes: Lives, Culture
    Regions: North America
    Media: Audio
    Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan, Alan Weisman
    Other Tags: tijuana, Luis Alberto Urrea, first world, third world

  • Border Stories

    Documentaries and features in English and Spanish exploring social, economic, legal, and environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.