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Our Migrant Souls

Our Migrant Souls is one of the most important pieces of Latino nonfiction in several decades. Turning the last page, you will feel the weight of history on your shoulders.

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Review of ‘Our Migrant Souls’

What is Latino? Or, for that matter, what is Latina, or Latine, or Latinx? In Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino,” journalist and author Héctor Tobar (The Last Great Road Bum) tries to explain. Though maybe explain isn’t the right…

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With Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author documents the fullness of Latinx experiences.

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