Taking Back the Immigrant Narrative
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Julio and guest co-host ITT fellow, Nour Saudi, talk to Chimene Suleyman, writer and co-editor of The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America. They discuss the common immigrant experience, what makes an immigrant “good,” and how literature can be a form of political activism in the age of Trump.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Listen to Chimene and other writers from The Good Immigrant talk about their immigrant experience in today’s America, from NPR.
- Check out My Immigration Story, the story of U.S. immigrants in their own words.
- This essay on the evolution of immigrant narratives in literature, from Literary Hub.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:23.0 | Grazias. Hey, welcome to Thethick, a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Huillio de la. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm North Saudi. |
| 0:42.0 | That's right. Today we have our very own... |
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| 0:47.0 | nur sowti. |
| 0:50.0 | I've been dying to do that. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:54.6 | You know I've been telling you, now I feel so much better that I got that out. |
| 0:58.8 | But hey, Nora, your guest hosting, thank you so much. And it's because we have a very special guest who is in |
| 1:06.2 | our Harlem studio right now and it's Schmend Suleiman writer and co-editor of the |
| 1:12.1 | good immigrant 26 writers Reflect on America Fantastic |
| 1:15.9 | Book, hey Schaman. |
| 1:16.9 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 1:18.7 | I'm fantastic, as always. |
| 1:21.4 | So we want to talk to you about this book, because because this book is it's so timely to have this book. |
| 1:25.3 | You wrote and co-edited the good immigrant. It came out in March and it features |
| 1:30.9 | 26 immigrant writers who share their essays on adolescence, family, identity, and race. |
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