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Midwifery: An Art of Maya Women

By Marissa Gaspard Williams
In Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, midwifery has traditionally been a thriving practice amongst the Maya peoples. Midwives have had an important place in rural indigenous communities because they…

Legacy and Lexicon: A Look into Operation Wetback's Impact on Immigration

By Marissa Gaspard Williams
In the summer of 1954 the United States government carried out a mass deportation of over one million people. [1] This was Operation Wetback. In recent years there has been increased concern…

White Slavery in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By Marissa Gaspard Williams
From the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico maintained a reputation as a vice capital. Americans flocked to the city for drinking, gambling, and…

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