Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by HELEN THORPE

Author:HELEN THORPE
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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SORORITY GIRLS

On the following Monday, Marisela slipped into Social Inequality five minutes late, wearing a DU sweatshirt. The girls were clothing themselves in their identity as college students more and more frequently these days. Lisa Martínez analyzed poverty rates in different countries, then handed back their midterms. After class, Marisela and Zahra decided to have lunch at the Pub. The girls often ate meals there, as it was located on campus and they could pay for food using their student accounts. Clara was on her way to meet a prospective student who was hoping to win a scholarship from the Daniels Fund. “At the Daniels Fund meeting, I said, ‘Anybody who wants a tour of DU, contact me.’ Stupid me! I’ll never say that again.”

“You can bring her to see us,” Marisela offered. “Our room is clean.”

“Yeah, we just had a cleaning session,” Zahra confirmed.

“Okay, I’ll call you if I need to deposit her with you,” said Clara.

Only a year had passed since the girls had crawled into the shrubs outside of Johnson-McFarlane, and already they were showing the new kids around. At the Pub, Zahra said that during the forum Marisela had alarmed the other girls by vociferously heckling the speakers. “You guys need to get educated!” she had yelled at Frosty Wooldridge. “Your figures aren’t right!” People sitting nearby had turned around to stare in a threatening manner, frightening the other girls. “Cálmate!” Clara had hissed at Marisela, urging her to calm down. “Don’t draw attention to yourself!” Afterward, they had stayed up late surfing the websites of anti-immigration groups and dissecting the experience. “We were talking afterward and saying it reminded us of Hitler,” Marisela said. “All that data they gave? It’s wrong. All their arguments were way off—and people believed it!”

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