Amanpour and Company

YOUR PREMISE IS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE HISPANIC VOTE. IT IS NOT A MONOLITH. WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO KNOW? >> THAT WE DON'T KNOW LATINOS. THE IDEA THAT POLITICIANS KNOW LATINOS IS THAT OF MY FATHER'S GENERATION. WE SPEAK SPANISH. YOU TALK TO US ABOUT IMMIGRATION. NO. OUR, THE HEART OF OUR STORY IS THE IMMIGRANT NATIVE. WE HAVEN'T TAKEN ENOUGH TIME IN DECIDING, WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHTS MY GRAND PARENTS FOUGHT FOR? HOW DO ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT IDENTITIES RECYCLE THEMSELVES? WHAT I TRY TO DO IN THE BOOK IS TO PAINT THE PICTURE OF WHO WE ARE. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT US, WHEN YOU ALLOW EVERYONE TO STEP OUT OF SHADOWS, YOU START TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE 3 MILLION LATINOS. YOU SEE SUDDENLY THERE ARE MORE THAN 250,000 LATINO THAT'S ARE MUSLIMS. THEY ARE MORE LIKELY THAN BLACK FOLKS AND WHITE FOLKS TO TELL THAT YOU THEY'RE QUEER. WE ARE NAVIGATING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF TELLING THAT STORY AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN ENOUGH RESEARCH AND ATTENTION AND INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING HOW WE DEVELOP AND CHANGE. >> SO THAT'S INTERESTING. THE DIFFERENCE OF FOCUS FOR YOUR GENERATION THAN YOUR FATHER'S. YOU MENTIONED YOUR FATHER IS JORGE RAMOS, VERY WELL CORRESPONDENT FOR UNIVISION. WE'VE HAD HIM ON MANY TIMES. HE'S TALKED ABOUT OTHER ISSUES IMPORTANT TO HIS GENERATION. WHAT ARE YOU FINDING THEN AS YOU TRAVEL AROUND THE UNITED STATES, PARTICULARLY IN THIS MOMENT OF ELECTION. WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING THEY WANT AND HOW, WHAT WILL MOBILIZE THEM TO VOTE? >> SO I THINK THEY'RE MOBILIZED. I THINK WE'RE SEEING THAT LATINOS ARE MOBILIZED. WITH COVID-19, THAT WAS IT FOR MANY YOUNG LATINOS. THEY HAVE SEEN, 36,000 DIED BECAUSE OF THIS VIRUS, RIGHT? YOUNG PEOPLE THAT HAVE SEEN THEIR PARENTS DIE, THEIR ABUELOS DIE. ALMOST 18% OF LATINOS ARE UNEMPLOYED SO THAT'S AN IMAGE YOU DON'T FORGET ABOUT. FOR MANY, IT HAS BECOME A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.