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Desert Race.

An essay concerning the escape of Rarámuris from deforestation, drug growers and drought in Chichuahua City, Mexico is presented. The author relates her experience of arriving in Chihuahua, the birthplace of her mother, in hopes to understand the lives of Rarámuri in transition. It explores how the...

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Published in:Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 13 - 31
Main Author: BLANCO, VICTORIA
Format: Nonfiction Work
Published: Michigan State University Press Fall2016
Subjects:
Tarahumara (Mexican people)
Deforestation
Droughts
Industrialization
Deserts
Social history
21st century (Literary period)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:An essay concerning the escape of Rarámuris from deforestation, drug growers and drought in Chichuahua City, Mexico is presented. The author relates her experience of arriving in Chihuahua, the birthplace of her mother, in hopes to understand the lives of Rarámuri in transition. It explores how the Rarámuris flee in droves to the industrialized cities of the desert from the Sierra Madre Occidental.