“Reclaiming my identity has been a painful birthing process. Something beautiful has been born, but not without blood and tears. The Latino identity is complex...even the very words we use to describe our community cause controversy. How we are counted in official forms like the census have created unintended consequences, or maybe it's by design that we are treated as America's bastard child, as perpetual foreigners no matter how many generations ago we became American.” MexicanLatinoLatino Identity Book:You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation Source: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation