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F**k normal. If it means a lifetime of unhappiness, then I don't want that. -Damian Thackeray,
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― Fairy Tale of A Mexican Family
― Fairy Tale of A Mexican Family
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...lies...drive immigrants, and people of color...to change who we are in order to make us palatable, or at least tolerable, to white America. I didn't find freedom in assimilation because there is no freedom in racist ideas. Assimilation requires that the story we tell about the United States and about white people is an uplifting, inspiring, sugarcoated version of the facts, in which the whip, guns, and racist motives must remain hidden. But it was the truth about this country, the knowledge o
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― You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
― You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Mexican Girls Virtual Book Group.
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