Natalie’s Reviews > Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” > Status Update
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“Mass consumerism is an empty, soulless utopia of more, more, and more of everything, supplied by a global stream of sacrifice and sweat. But a life centered on consumption for its own sake is unrewarding and unviable. Both in a purely mathematical sense, and in the ecological sense, the planet and our brown, laboring bodies cannot sustain the way of life that racism has helped bring into being.”
— Jan 20, 2026 05:29AM
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Natalie
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“Today, across the United States, we need ideas of identity and struggle that begin with our shared experiences in the places where immigrants and “people of color“ and the “unhoused“ and “working people“ and the hungry and the striving of all “races“ meet and mix and form communities together.“
— Jan 20, 2026 05:52AM
Natalie
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“Blaxican is a way of saying: “we’ve lived something here together, in this ghetto, in the barrio. And here we became a people.“
— Jan 20, 2026 05:40AM
Natalie
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“We live in a country where “multiracial“ people feel they must explain themselves and their place in the race schemes of this country. But really, no explanation is necessary. The United States is a “mulatto“ country, and a “mestizo“ country, and to be Blaxican is to live the very common and ordinary mixing of distinct “peoples“ thrown together by migration and inequality.“
— Jan 20, 2026 05:39AM
Natalie
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“Race is a story. As I have written here … it is a lie at the service of dispossession, inequality, and exploitation. Race is a fairy tale created from the imagination of slave owners and slave traders, and by the leaders of armies bent on conquest and genocide. That story helped build great systems of production that have functioned for centuries, extracting riches from human labor.”
— Jan 20, 2026 05:23AM
Natalie
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“Race is built into the way our society manages inequality and exploitation. Even if we could swipe the last racist thought from the psyche of every citizen of the United States of America, the need to justify the divisions between rich and poor, between privileged and excluded, would produce new ideas of race and new racisms. This is the essence of United States history, it’s undying constant.”
— Jan 20, 2026 05:14AM
Natalie
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“Latino is an alliance, a convergence of common interests.”
— Jan 19, 2026 07:56PM
