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  title info:
    title: You sound like a White girl
    sub title: the case for rejecting assimilation
  name:
    name part: Arce, Julissa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 198 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce interweaves her own story with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. "You sound like a White girl." These were the words spoken to Julissa by a high school crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a Brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. She'd spent so much time getting rid of her accent so no one could tell English was her second language that in that moment she felt those words--you sound like a White girl--were a compliment. As a child, she didn't yet understand that assimilating to "American" culture really meant imitating "White" America--that sounding like a White girl was a racist idea meant to tame her, change her, and make her small. She ran the race, completing each stage, but never quite fit in, until she stopped running altogether. In this dual polemic and manifesto, 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. Julissa deftly argues that these demands leave her and those like her in a purgatory--neither able to secure the power and belonging within whiteness nor find it in the community and cultures whiteness demands immigrants and people of color leave behind. In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa offers a bold new promise…
  table of contents: Part one. The lies we're told -- The lie of Whiteness -- The lie of English -- The lie of success -- Part two. Embracing our truth -- Reclaiming our history -- Reclaiming our identity -- Reclaiming our culture -- Last words.
  note: Julissa Natzely Arce Raya.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Assimilation (Sociology)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Americanization
  subject:
    topic: Minorities
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: Assimilation (Sociologie)
    geographic: EÌ?tats-Unis
  subject:
    topic: AmeÌ?ricanisation
  subject:
    geographic: EÌ?tats-Unis
    topic: Relations interethniques
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  subject:
    topic: Americanization
  subject:
    topic: Assimilation (Sociology)
  subject:
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: Minorities
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HM843 .A73 2022
  classification: 303.48/2
  identifier: 9781250787019
  identifier: 1250787017
  identifier: 9781250812810
  identifier: 2021041591
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210830
    record change date: 20220513144747.4
    record identifier: in00004579036
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng