![]() ![]() Stories about empire move us because they’re echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness. ![]() When we see the empire defeated, we feel strong, liberated, and renewed. We sit in a darkened theater, or with our faces covered in the bluish glow of our private screens, and we watch heroes who are small and weak and isolated fight back against power. The empire of fantasy and cosplay is steel and stone perfection, and it is savagery. We watch and read narratives of powerful elites living inside stone towers and walled cities, protected by death rays and roiling fires and all-seeing eyes. I took them to movies and bought them books that transported them into fictional realms and into alternate pasts, or deep into the future, or into a galaxy that is “far, far away.” This is a rite of passage of a United States childhood. My children grew up devouring stories of empire and injustice, fantasies set in worlds that are not our own. Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Héctor Tobar about his new book, " Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino." In it, Tobar tells the stories he's heard as well as his own to explore what it means to be called Latino. The cover of "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino." (Courtesy) ![]()
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