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Our migrant souls : a meditation on race and the meanings and myths of "Latino" / Héctor Tobar.

Summary:
"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"-- Provided by publisher.
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people. Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of "Latino" as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and seeks to give voice to the angst and anger of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes about "illegals" and have faced insults, harassment, and division based on white insecurities and economic exploitation.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374609900
  • ISBN: 037460990X
  • Physical Description: 244 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Our migrant souls -- Part I: Our country -- Empires ; Walls ; Beginnings ; Cities ; Race ; Intimacies ; Secrets ; Ashes ; Lies ; Part II: Our journey's home -- Light ; Home ; Conclusion: Utopias.
Subject: Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.

Available copies

  • 18 of 21 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 21 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 305.868 TOBAR (Text) 50686016298890 Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 04/04/2024
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library 305.868 TOB (Text) 37268003165453 AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 305.868 TOB (Text) 33240005164499 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 305.868 T628o (Text) 85131001878827 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 305.858 TOBAR (Text)
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Highland Community Library 305.868 TOB (Text) 35610001016505 HGHM Non-Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 305.868 Tobar Civil Rights (Text) 39427103736989 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Kaltreider-Benfer Library Adults 305.86 TOB Nonfiction (Text) 34002001683743 Adult Area New In Process -
Martin Library Adults 305.86 TOB Life Times (Text) 33454005946074 2nd Floor Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 305.868 TOB 2023 (Text) 31001101915131 Adult Non Fiction Available -

Summary: "A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"--
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people. Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of "Latino" as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and seeks to give voice to the angst and anger of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes about "illegals" and have faced insults, harassment, and division based on white insecurities and economic exploitation.

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