Héctor Tobar, UCI professor of journalism and Chicano/Latino studies writes: “Like all labels, Latino is to some extent a fiction, a story we tell about ourselves. But what, if anything, does this story mean? In December, I set out on a nine-thousand-mile road trip across the country, aiming to visit as many Latino communities as I could …. I wanted to find out whether a term that describes so many different people in so many different circumstances still had something to say.”

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