[Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as close and personal to him as it could be when he was growing up — an apt expression of his parents’ turbulent Mexican-American divorce. In his writing and in this conversation, he complicates every dehumanizing stereotype of Mexicans, "migrants" — and border guards. A deep truth of our time, Luis insists, is that “we miss each other.” He offers a vision of the larger possibility of our time beyond the terrible tangles of today: that we might evolve the old illusion of the melting pot into a 21st-century richness of “us." And he delightfully models that messiness and humor will be required.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.8	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.8	I'm Christa Tippett, up next, my unedited conversation with Luis Alberto Urea.
0:30.5	There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.5	Good evening, everyone.
0:40.5	Good evening.
0:41.5	Thank you so much for coming out tonight for the culminating event of this year's Big
0:46.7	Read.
0:47.7	I'm Heather Rutledge.
0:49.2	I'm Executive Director at ArtReach St. Croix.
0:53.1	The St. Croix Valley this year was one of 75 communities in the nation to receive an
0:58.7	NEA Big Read grant.
1:01.1	And in fact, it's the fourth time that we've received this grant.
1:13.0	That means to date, we have brought in $59,000 federal dollars to the valley, and we've
1:20.0	leveraged that with local funding and with ArtReach staff to a total of $149,000.
1:34.1	This builds on a decade of valley reads programming, which was a cooperative regional literary
1:39.9	arts project.
1:42.9	Stillwater-based ArtReach St. Croix works to raise the visibility of the visual, performing,
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