Julissa Arce: Why Being American Shouldn't Require Cultural Assimilation

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Julissa Arce: Why Being American Shouldn't Require Cultural Assimilation

Andrew Keen

Mar 31, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Julissa Arce, the author of You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation.

Julissa Arce is a best-selling author of My (Underground) American Dream (Entre Las Sombras del Sueño Americano) and Someone Like Me (Alguien Como Yo). She was named one of People en Español’s 25 Most Powerful Women of 2017 and 2019 Woman of the Year by the City of Los Angeles. She is a leading voice in the fights for social justice, immigrant rights and education equality.

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