
Our Migrant Souls
A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
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Narrated by:
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André Santana
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By:
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Héctor Tobar
Long-listed, New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Carnegie Medal, 2024
Finalist, Kirkus Prize, 2023
Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2023
Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year 2023
A new audiobook 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.
Investigating topics that include the US-Mexico border "wall," Frida Kahlo, urban segregation, gangs, queer Latino utopias, and the emergence of the cartel genre in TV and film, Tobar journeys across the country to expose something truer about the meaning of "Latino" in the twenty-first century.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Personal stories and factual history blended into one book
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A thoughtful exploration of Latinidad.
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Loved!
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He is a beautiful writer, clearly gifted in both fiction and nonfiction, because his style in this book blends the two. He looks at culture and the immigrant experience on both a macro and a micro level— giving the reader much to think about, and even to act on in our daily lives here in Los Angeles.
Such a beautiful and important book
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A true American history
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The whole book was good from the beginning, to the end.
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Powerful storytelling
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Just ok.
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Plays in the idea of “we are the victims.”
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