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Mexicans Are Such Hardworkers poem by Anna Flores

2024

Mexicans Are Such Hard Workers

By Anna Flores

Flores takes a familiar stereotype about Mexican labor and progressively strips away its apparently complimentary surface, revealing exploitation, immigration pressure, inherited identity, faith, masculinity, and the human cost borne by the speaker’s father.