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1940s–Present

Scene 7: The Portable Homeland

The Bracero program and the migration of Mexican culture northward.

Scene 7 - 1
Scene 7 - 2
Scene 7 - 3

🎭 Classroom Acting Instructions

📍 Stage Blocking

  • Bracero Worker: Enter slowly from stage left.
  • U.S. Foreman: Stage right with clipboard.

🎭 Emotional Cues

  • Bracero: QUIET DIGNITY and HOMESICKNESS.
  • Foreman: PRACTICAL and CURIOUS.

Characters in this Scene:

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Setting: A border crossing, 1940s.

Narrator 1: The "Bracero" program began in 1942. Millions of Mexican men left to work in the United States.

Bracero Worker: I leave my home to feed my family. I am a stranger here.

U.S. Foreman: Why do you carry that small picture?

Bracero Worker: (Holding up Guadalupe) This is my portable homeland. She reminds me I am never truly an orphan.

Narrator 2: Today, over 37 million people of Mexican origin live in the United States. The heritage is woven into the spirit of America.

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