Rejecting Assimilation

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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio are joined by Julissa Arce, immigration rights advocate and author of the new book “You Sound Like A White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation.” They discuss the issues of assimilation in the United States and the complexities of Latino identity. They also get into the history of racism against Latinos in this country, and why it’s important to learn that history.

This episode was mixed by Leah Shaw Dameron.

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:15.6	To take our survey today, that's survey.prx.org slash futuro.
0:22.8	Thank you very much.
0:32.8	There's this notion that American is white.
0:35.8	There's a lot of people in this country who are American who are not white and who have
0:41.4	been American since before the United States even existed.
0:48.2	We've got a special guest for everyone today joining us from Los Angeles, California,
1:01.2	Julisa Arce.
1:02.2	She's an immigration rights activist and an author of the new book.
1:07.8	You sound like a white girl.
1:09.6	Oh, the case for rejecting assimilation.
1:12.0	Oh, okay.
1:13.0	Julisa, welcome to the show.
1:15.6	Hi, thank you for having me.
1:18.0	I love the reactions, the different reactions people have to the title of the book.
1:23.0	I gave you mine.
1:25.0	Yeah, like some places I show up and people laugh when they hear the title.
1:30.1	Sometimes there's like a big silence when they hear the title and some people take off
1:35.4	the cover of the book when they're reading it so that the bright pink cover isn't in
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