Newsweek features Hector Tobar’s new Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States.
The overarching story of today’s Latinos, he writes, is that of a population living close enough to home that the slow dissolution of their own culture never takes place. An essential latinidad remains preserved, and its cultural influence will only grow (by 2050 a quarter of the population will be of Latino heritage). “All across this new country,” Tobar writes, “people without a radical thought in their bodies are beginning to embrace… that idea Che Guevara staked his life on in the last century: they believe they have a transnational identity, that their bodies and souls can live between two countries, that the physical border need not exist in the mind.”
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