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People |
Rita Morales and Enrique Lamadrid
have a conversation in this section about the work that
Rita is involved in on the Mexican side of the border and
the really giant maquiladora (maquiladoras are
production plants found mainly on the U.S./Mexico border
and are generally owned by U.S. companies). The topic at
hand throughout this section and its interview is
Hispanic contributions to science and technology in the
United States. (Read full interview) |
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Science,
Technology & Invention in The Rio Grande: Industrial Technology and Traditional Knowledge |
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Rita is a really interesting
person to talk to in terms of this just because of the
tremendous size of the industry along the border where so
much of the electronics, where so much of the component
parts that our whole scientific technological enterprise
is composed of are assembled by people just like her. Rita is originally from Veracruz, in Central Mexico on the Gulf Coast of course. She left at the age of twenty nine and came up to Brownsville in 1983 and started working as a waitress but then began working for Fisher Price, in a maquila putting together all of different kinds of toys that they make, putting together playpens. |
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