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Here in the heart of the American Dustbowl, most of the residents work as laborers in the surrounding corn and soybean fields, in the beef-and pork-packing industries or in farm-equipment manufacturing. A group of 20 to 30 migrant farm workers, mostly undocumented Mexican immigrants, come for two months each summer to work in the corn fields, town officials...
...American artists were wary of politics. What they wanted was the luxury of a private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant that the subjects of what used to be called concerned photography--the migrant workers of Dorothea Lange, for example, or the G.I.s of Robert Capa--lost some of their claim on the imagination. The icons of the 1950s would be personal and a bit inscrutable, like the quasi-mystical nature studies of Minor White and the abstract close-ups of torn posters...
...Beijing's current state of fragility, with Deng Xiaoping on his deathbed and his designated successor, Jiang Zemin, not firmly in control. Despite the government's success in raising the standard of living, its problem list is long: money-losing state enterprises, more than 100 million basically unemployed migrant workers, rampant corruption, growing gaps between rich and poor as well as between the booming coastal provinces and the neglected hinterland--all tinder for potential social unrest. Perhaps most important, an ideologically bankrupt Communist Party is relying on repression and nationalism to keep itself in power and the country united...
MARIA RAMIREZ, 39, COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO: Teacher This year's Bilingual Teacher of the Year was born to migrant farm workers and grew up weeding crops throughout the Northwest. Ramirez went on to win a college scholarship, only to be stricken with a brain tumor in her junior year. After a long recovery she earned a master's degree. She now teaches Spanish to the staff in her school district, which is 47% Hispanic, as well as English to immigrants. "If you have a dream," she says, "work toward...
...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Ghost of Tom Joad (Columbia). Drained of the arena-rock testosterone and bourgeois guilt that have marred Springsteen's recent work, this serene album explores the lives of steelworkers, illegal immigrants and migrant farmers. The Boss is gone, and Bruce is back among the proletariat...