Rejecting Assimilation News Today

"The legacy of Prop187 was to create a generational voting bloc of Latinos against the Republican Party that would not normally happen."

This week we're featuring an excerpt from Julissa Arce’s memoir “You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation.”

Assimilation is not the key to belonging — that’s what Julissa Arce argues in her new book, “You Sound Like A White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation.”

Metrolink is now powering its trains with recycled natural oils from Singapore and Finland, which it says will cut carbon emissions by up to 80%. But that doesn’t make it sustainable.

In ‘You Sound Like a White Girl,’ Julissa Arce combines memoir and history to reclaim the Latino identity she pushed away as an undocumented immigrant.