“Homies” in the Mission: A City History Lecture | SF

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Shaping San Francisco | City History Lectures

Shaping San Francisco is a series of free lectures, which aim to excavate the city’s lost history. It’s a place to meet and talk unmediated by corporations, official spokespeople, religion, political parties, or dogma.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission | Shaping San Francisco | City History Lectures

Wed. May 8, 7:30 pm
Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission

In Adriana Camarena’s new work, Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission, the most precarious residents of the Mission are the central storytellers. Theirs are historic tales of Californian daily life: Indigenous migrants from Palenque (Mexico), on their day off from construction or cooking on the line, watch movies inside their shared group apartment, exhausted and dreaming of families left back home. Parents – particularly single mothers – raising children in the Mission, fending off poverty by working hard, with the result that their dutifulness sometimes translates into absence for their kids. Other parents are absent by way of jail or addiction. Lost in plain sight, young kids in gangs troll the neighborhood flexing their muscles over territorial disputes, and seasoned convicts in their twenties run the drug exchange at corner depots. War veterans and the mentally ill fill the neighborhood shelters, while community service workers struggle to keep up. These are stories of abandon, but also of love, loyalty, laughter, and a fierce will to survive in adversity.

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