Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies Terms

A coyote is a guide who helps migrants illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. read analysis of Coyote

Habitus refers to the set of ingrained habits and dispositions that people generally learn from the society surrounding them. read analysis of Habitus

In Spanish-speaking Latin America, people with a mixed (Indigenous and European) ethnic and cultural identity are considered “mestizo” people. In Latin America as well as the United States, mestizo people generally have more social privilege… read analysis of Mestizo

Mixtec refers to an Indigenous group and language from Oaxaca. In general, Mixtec people rank higher than Triqui people in the American agriculture industry’s ethnic hierarchy because they are seen as more assimilated into mestizo… read analysis of Mixtec

The term structural violence efers to the way that social hierarchies create physical and mental suffering and sickness. read analysis of Structural Violence

Symbolic violence efers to ways of talking, thinking, and acting that lead people to accept social injustices as natural or inevitable. Often, they do so by helping people normalize, naturalize, or internalize hierarchies. read analysis of Symbolic Violence

Triqui refers to an Indigenous people from western Oaxaca, as well as the language they speak. After NAFTA made their corn crop uncompetitive, Triqui people have largely been forced to migrate to Mexican cities… read analysis of Triqui