I've always been proud to have been born on the Mississippi Delta, a place known as much for its racial inequality as for its people who refuse to be defined by it. A first generation USborn daughter of Mexican immigrants, I experienced life school differently. I was a migrant student.My parents traveled from state to state in search of seasonal agricultural work. We didn't have a whole lot of stability. So when I talk about school, I don't talk about it as an institution. I talk about it as a constant in a ...