OUR MIGRANT SOULS A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

Academic Héctor Tobar explores Western European-descended North Americans' evolving creation of "brownness" as a governable and repressible classification. The youthful timbre of André Santana's voice pairs well with Tobar's view of Latino people as young in both generational and political senses. Santana weaves Tobar's data and other research, stories of his life and his parents' lives, and his students' observations into a flowing whole. In doing so, he presents Tobar's assessment of identity as a phenomenon that is applied by external sources. Santana's steady pace carries listeners along until, ultimately, Tobar asks us to consider his observations at a personal level. F.M.R.G. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2023]