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Join Dr. Andrew Sandoval-Strausz as he speaks to the continued importance of his work "Barrio America:How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City." The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight.
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz is Director of Latino Studies and Associate Professor of History at Penn State University. He was born in New York City to immigrant parents, went uptown to college at Columbia University, and then on to the University of Chicago for his PhD. He teaches courses in Latino studies, immigration history, and urban history, and his research has explored mobility, migration, and immigration. He is the author of Hotel: An American History (Yale University Press), Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History (University of Pennsylvania Press), and most recently Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Basic Books), which won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize and was a finalist for the Victor Villaseñor Book Award.
This speaker event is being presented in tandem with the "Nuestro Oak Cliff" Exhibit and is an iteration of the Jesse Tafalla Speaker Series (Jesse Tafalla being a founder of the Dallas Mexican American Historical League).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St, Dallas, United States