Assignment is on book Forgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato; draws clear connections between gang violence in US inner cities (in particular San Francisco and Los Angeles) and violence in El Salvador during the Civil War and beyond. In the introduction he writes: “Where most see the refugee crisis as “new,” I see the longue duree of history and memory. Where many see the story beginning at the border, I see the time-space continuum of violence, migration, and forgetting that extends far beyond and below the US-Mexico border. Where others see mine as a Central American story, I see it as a story about the United States.” Identify and articulate at least 2 arguments (in 2 paragraphs) that he presents in support of his understanding of the interconnections of violence in El Salvador and in the United States.
