“That is the paradox of assimilation … You can be essential—an essential worker—and at the same time excluded from the CARES Act.”
John Alba Cutler
John Alba Cutler is associate professor of English and Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University, where his work focuses on US Latinx literature and culture. He is the author of Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (Oxford University Press, 2015).