The article of interest is titled “Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo” written by Bonnie Thornton Dill. The main point of the article was to show the extent to which people of color went through in order to keep their families together many years ago. It discussed how vastly different, yet strikingly similar, the experiences were for African Americans during the slave era, Mexican Americans after the U.S. colonization of Mexico, and Chinese Americans in the 19th century. All three of these populations had members who worked long hours in the United States and were usually separated by slave owners, labor laws, and other factors. The data seemed to be collected from varying journal articles as well as personal accounts from those who lived
