Hey, it's NPR's book of the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Latino is a synonym for mixed.

That's something our guest on the pot today says. His name is Hector Tobar. He's the son of Guatemalan

immigrants based in L.A. He used to work at the L.A. Times where he won a Pulitzer for reporting

on the 1992 L.A. riots. So he knows a thing about how complicated the cross

points between race and class can be in this country. He's got a new book out called Our

Migrant Souls. And in it, he really minds the term Latino for all its worth, for all its

implications, good or bad. And in this conversation with Here Nasdipa Fernandez,

they talk about how this country sees Latino identity more as a cast than anything else.

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The term Latino has been used with increasing frequency in the media, in discussions on

immigration, but what does it actually mean to be classified into this group? Does the word

Latino have any real resonance? Or is it a term imposed from the outside? Pulitzer

prize-winning reporter Hector Tobar thoroughly explores Latino in many contexts,

including his own life in his new book, Are Migrant Souls?

And he joins me to talk about it.

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