Esperanza Rising
Esperanza Rising
how was the strikers camp different from before the deportation?
how was the strikers camp different from before the deportation?
A week later, Isabel is still obsessed with becoming the Queen of the May. She cheerfully announces that someone is building a new camp for the workers from Oklahoma where there will be a pool. However, Mexican workers will only be allowed to swim one day per week. Hortensia adds that the time for Mexicans too swim is on Friday afternoons, right before the pool is cleaned on Saturday mornings (based on the stereotype that the Mexicans are dirtier than the other migrant workers).