You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Activist and nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce's new book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation is the kind of book that will lift the history, heritage, and culture of our people. It is a book that needs to be in the hands of every Latino high school student, especially as efforts to ban Latino studies, and Critical Race Theory, pick up steam.
This is where you come in to become a "Madrina or Padrino" to get this important book into the hands of Black and Brown girls of the LA Promise Fund program. For the past seven years, GirlsBuild has empowered more than 50,000 underserved girls. They instill within these bright girls the passion to reach their dreams by uplifting them to believe in their dreams and we know Julissa’s book can help them on their journey. You can pledge 25, 50, 100, or more books to these schools. The Acevedo Foundation is pledging to buy and donate 100 books, will you join us in whichever way you can support our initiative?
Our goal is to grow the choir of people who believe that Latinos belong in America. People who want to learn our history, and reclaim our culture. Julissa often says that changing the narrative begins with changing how we see ourselves.
We hope you will join this incredible initiative to grow the choir!
You can donate via Credit Card and PayPal using this link: https://givebutter.com/JulissaArce
Or pre-order books directly using this link: https://https://creatingconversations.indielite.org/preorder-you-sound-white-girl
About the Book:
In You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation, nationally bestselling author, Julissa Arce, interweaves her own experiences with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America in her new book, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation. Instead, she calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that actually make us Americans.
About Julissa:
Julissa Arce is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and social justice advocate who, with America Ferrera, is currently developing and executive producing a television series for a major network optioned from her memoir, My (Underground) American Dream. Her young adult memoir, Someone Like Me, is used in classrooms across the country. Arce is a Crooked media contributor, a frequent writer for TIME Magazine, and has provided political commentary across numerous TV networks including NBC News, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and MSNBC. She is the founder of the Ascend Educational Fund, a college scholarship, and mentorship program for immigrant students regardless of their immigration status. She lives in Los Angeles.
We hope we can count on your support to continue to uplift the voices in our community.
