“Whiskey Tender,” a new memoir, recalls growing up in Farmington in the 1970s
Deborah Jackson Taffa
Deborah Jackson Taffa’s essay on race and class in New Mexico was published last November by Searchlight New Mexico. A citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, she is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe.
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Race and class in New Mexico
A personal essay unraveling the complexities of identity in light of recent violence at an Oñate rally