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when you look at the south bronx, you see what? possibility, promise, some of the world s most beautiful people. hinojosa: hmm! .all sorts of assets that are just waiting to be developed and recognized as such. hinojosa: but when you were growing up in the south bronx. uh! hinojosa: .one of ten kids, okay? ( laughing ) yeah. hinojosa: what were you seeing around you? i was seeing, you know, the burned-out shells of buildings. i did see, you know, crack heads who lived across the street from me in a burned out shell. i did see my neighborhood played out larger than life on television about being, like, the worst place in the world and nothing good could come of it, because that s where crime and prostitution and all these awful things were, and so that s what i saw, you know, as a kid. hinojosa: what does that do to a kid? ( sighs deeply ) hinojosa: i mean, profoundly, what does it do to you when you, every day to get to school, you ve got to walk ....
shawn colvin, welcome. - [shawn] thank you. - [eric] nice to see you again. - [shawn] you too. - [eric] it s so nice to hear your voice coming out of a record, i have to tell you the great fun i ve had over the last couple of weeks listening to this record. it reminds me how much i enjoy hearing your music. - thank you. - and it s a really great, and interesting, and different record. it s very spare, very raw, and casual. not is as if pejorative i say that, but it just doesn t feel like it s been over-produced and over done. feel like you all had fun - that s a great compliment. - [eric] making it. - we did, and it was done quickly, a week and a half and- - [eric] you recorded it in a week and a half? - we did. and those are exactly the words we want you to use to describe it. - good. and it was recorded in different places, or it was recorded in one place? - no, it was recorded in nashville with buddy miller who s a producer and often it s not when he produces, you ....
find his mother in the united states, and he did it all alone. and you spent five years essentially recreating his story and reporting this book. and i have to tell you that the reporting in this book is extraordinary. thank you. hinojosa: i mean, you actually. you meet this little boy when he s 15 years old on the u.s./mexico border, and what makes you decide to say, i m going to tell the story of enrique ? well, i wanted to tell more broadly the story of these millions of women who have come to the united states from mexico and central america. you know, around the country, we know these women. they clean our homes, they clean our offices, they take care of our children. among latinos, they are women in our families. they ve come here because they face this horrible choice of, do i stay in my country, not be able to feed my kids more than once a twice a day, not see them study past the third grade, or do i pull myself away from them and come north so that i ca ....
shawn colvin, welcome. - [shawn] thank you. - [eric] nice to see you again. - [shawn] you too. - [eric] it s so nice to hear your voice coming out of a record, i have to tell you the great fun i ve had over the last couple of weeks listening to this record. it reminds me how much i enjoy hearing your music. - thank you. - and it s a really great, and interesting, and different record. it s very spare, very raw, and casual. not is as if pejorative i say that, but it just doesn t feel like it s been over-produced and over done. feel like you all had fun - that s a great compliment. - [eric] making it. - we did, and it was done quickly, a week and a half and- - [eric] you recorded it in a week and a half? - we did. and those are exactly the words we want you to use to describe it. - good. and it was recorded in different places, or it was recorded in one place? - no, it was recorded in nashville with buddy miller who s a producer and often it s not when he produces, you re ....