In this episode of the podcast, web editor Violet Lucca speaks with Héctor Tobar, [UCI professor of journalism and Chicano/Latino studies], a novelist and veteran journalist who went on a 9,000-mile road trip across the United States to visit a variety of Latino communities. Tobar’s reporting complicates received wisdom about what it means to be Latino, and revels in the diversity—political and otherwise—of the identity.
 
For the full story, please visit https://harpers.org/2021/07/home-country/.  

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