Abstract
Last year, my collaborator Adrian Ventura, director of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (Workers' Community Center, or CCT), asked me to write a letter to an elected official on the organization's behalf. Adrian is a Maya K'iche', the largest of the 22 Maya ethnicities in Guatemala, and the CCT is an immigrant workers' rights organization in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He wanted to ensure that the letter clearly explained the organization's analysis of why Central American immigrants, and especially the Guatemalan Maya, had come to the United States.1 "We didn't come for the American dream," he reminded me. I asked him what, specifically, he wanted in the letter. "Ah, Lisa," he responded, with a bit of exasperation. "You're the anthropologist. You've been with us so long, you know what to write."
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