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You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce #ModernLatinaBookClub
The Modern Latina Book Club members picked You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by best selling author Julissa Arce. Julissa dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English―each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore. Join Modern Latina Book Club as we read this much anticipated book where Julissa offers a new promise: Belonging only comes through celebrating yourself, your history, your culture, and everything that makes you uniquely you!
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Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa #ModernLatinaBookClub
The Modern Latina Book Club selected Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa for our next reading. In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today. Join the Modern Latina Book Club, we start reading this powerful memoir on 3/1/21.
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Modern Latina Book Club: More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz
We are excited to start 2021 with a book that will inspire and provide us with the tools and encouragement to be leaders while staying true to our authentic selves. Join the Modern Latina Book Club as we begin reading More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz on January 18. Cecilia Muñoz served for eight years on President Obama’s senior staff, first as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, then as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is now the Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at New America and a Senior Fellow at Results for America.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras #ModernLatinaBookClub
We are excited to announce that the Modern Latina Book Club will be reading Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Her novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, is a national bestseller and New York Times Editor Pick. This autobiographically inspired story takes place in Bogotá, Colombia during the height of the Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel in the 1990s. The two main characters, nine-year-old Chula Santiago and her family maid, thirteen-year-old Petrona represent contrasting socioeconomic classes which determines how they experience their violent environment. The Modern Latina Book Club will begin reading the book on 10/19/20. Join the reading.
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia #ModernLatinaBookClub
The Washington Post wrote that ‘Mexican Gothic’ is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down. And the Modern Latina Book Club members are so excited to start read Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s newly released novel.