Is the idea of a color-blind American society just that, or will we ever actually see past our differences and backgrounds? We’ll chat this hour with Gustavo Arellano, who reaches over 2 million readers a week with his syndicated “Ask a Mexican” column. He’s in town to address the 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series organized by UT Arlington’s Center for Mexican American Studies.
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Regardless of how it’s portrayed in the media, the immigrant wave is not monolithic. There are millions of individual stories to be told. We’ll hear one such story this hour with Gustavo Arellano, who writes the syndicated “Ask a Mexican” column, which has a weekly circulation of 2 million nationwide. His new book is “Orange County: A Personal History” (Scribner, 2008).
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