You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Julissa Arce writes about assimilation imposed on a brown immigrant from Mexico after she arrived in San Antonio in 1994. She describes working to erase her accent so that English would not be recognized as her second language, and the complicated reaction when someone said she sounded like a white girl. The book examines language, identity, and the pressure to conform across cultural and racial lines.