“Book Descriptions:New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Héctor Tobar explores twenty-first century Latino experience and identity in Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”.
“Latino” is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. New York Times contributor and university professor Héctor Tobar offers his 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 faced insult, harassments, and division based on white insecurities and economic exploitation.
Investigating topics that range from the US-Mexico border “wall,” Frida Kahlo, urban segregation, gangs, queer Latino utopias, and the emergence of the cartel genre of TV and film, Tobar journeys across the country to expose something truer about the meaning of “Latino” in the twenty-first century.” DRIVE
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