Working: Undocumented Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Fought to Tell His Story

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🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, host June Thomas talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. In the interview, Jose discusses the origins of a piece he wrote for the New York Times Magazine titled “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” He also talks about his organization, Define American, which aims to influence how immigrants are depicted on TV, in movies, and on the national stage broadly. After the interview, June and co-host Isaac Butler talk about which groups are still not represented adequately on TV and in movies. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Jose lists his favorite books about immigration and citizenship. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.4	again over a period of time, more than just once.
0:44.3	So all of a sudden, people who have never been exposed to someone who's an undocumented
0:48.5	person, you know, undocumented, Filipino, and gay, right?
0:51.9	All of a sudden, they got to know this guy as just this guy.
0:59.3	Welcome back to working.
1:01.8	I'm your host, Isaac Butler, and I'm your other host, June Thomas.
1:06.4	And that voice we just heard before belongs to Jose Antonio Vargas, June.
1:11.9	Who is Jose and why did you want to talk to him for this episode?
1:16.0	So Jose is at heart a journalist.
1:19.0	He's probably still best known for an article that was published in the New York Times
1:22.9	magazine 10 years ago.
1:25.5	And in the article, he came out as an undocumented immigrant.
1:29.2	He was sent over from the Philippines when he was 12 and he only found out that he didn't
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