Michael Carter: My mom grew up in a very working class, Mexican-American family.

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When I arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1985, I was one of 35 Mexican-Americans in a class of 1, 600 freshmen.

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Populated by mainstream Americans and Mexican immigrants, by the working class and the retired, this hamlet is a poor outpost with Old West roots where people don't miss society and have often dropped out of it.

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