Featured, from our magazine: April Maria Ortiz has a troubled history with her adopted home, and the #racism and segregation she experienced there. Yet when she researched its actual #history, Castroville turned out to be even more complex than she expected. https://www.texasobserver.org/time-comes-for-castroville/

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Exclusion, Belonging, and Hidden History in Castroville

The Little Alsace of Texas, my once and current home, has long been more comfortable with an idealized past than with its full history or contradictory present.

The Texas Observer