Borders/Fronteras: Immigrant Students' Worlds in Art

TLDR: In this article, a writer-in-residence in a number of public schools in Wake and Durham counties in North Carolina was struck by changing school demographics and culture, which had been made up almost exclusively of Black and White students.

Abstract: In my work as an artist and a writer-in-residence in a number of public schools in Wake and Durham counties in North Carolina, I was struck by changing school demographics and culture. These schools — which had been made up almost exclusively of Black and White students—were experiencing a growing population of immigrant children, mostly children of migrant workers from Mexico, whose families were choosing to settle permanently in the area.