Ep. 207 Breaking Through the Black/White Binary with Julissa Arce

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today we're joined by Julissa Arce, author, and education and immigration activist. On this episode we have a conversation around Julissa's third book, You Sound Like a White Girl: A Case for Rejecting Assimilation. We talk about the myths around U.S. citizenship, colorism in Latine communities, plus the histories that the Black-white binary excludes.

You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/03/23/ep-207-julissa-arce

The Stacks Book Club selection for February is A Mercy by Toni Morrison, we will discuss the book on March 30th with Imani Perry.

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0:00.0	All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left
0:08.5	Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show
0:16.2	We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also
0:22.2	She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being
0:26.4	We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and
0:33.7	The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of
0:42.6	Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast
0:46.6	We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club
0:52.6	One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams
0:57.7	It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out
1:14.8	Welcome to the stats of podcast about books and the people who read them
1:17.9	I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today our guest is Julissa Arce
1:21.8	author speaker and social justice activist who focuses her work around immigrant justice and education equality
1:28.1	We talk today about Julissa's newest book you sound like a white girl the case for rejecting assimilation and the ways that Julissa is thinking about
1:34.8	Colorism history and the ideas of a united Latina dad
1:39.2	The stacks book club pick for March is a mercy by Tony Morrison and we will be discussing the book on the podcast on March 30th with our guest
1:46.2	Imani Perry if you like the stacks and want more of it
1:49.5	Please head to patreon dot com slash the stacks to join the stacks pack
1:53.5	You get perks like our bonus episodes virtual book club discounts on March and shout outs on the show
1:59.8	Speaking of shout outs here are our newest members of the stacks pack
2:03.6	Becky Zoderman Nicole Catherine Nikki Young Katie Samlow Taylor Harris Lindsey Turner Julia Erdlin Kelsey and Liza
2:14.1	Thank you all so much for joining the stacks pack and putting your money behind the work of this show
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