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“to know ourselves is to stand before the border that runs through our lives and our history, and to face it, seeing it for all it's absurdity and its arbitrariness. a history of inhumanity and prejudice gave birth to the border and its wall, and we can feel the wounds it has inflicted on us ...We will endure”

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Book:Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

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