UCI professor and author Hector Tobar traveled across the country to ask: What does it mean to be Latino?
UCI professor and author Hector Tobar traveled across the country to ask: What does it mean to be Latino?
- August 13, 2021
- Learn what he saw and how he thinks about his own identity in this piece with PBS Newshour
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What does it mean to be Latino? Author Hector Tobar, [UCI professor of journalism and Chicano/Latino studies], took a 9,000-mile road trip across the country last winter exploring exactly that. In an essay for Harper’s and a forthcoming book, “A Migrant’s Light,” he captures the history and experience of Latinos everywhere from Los Angeles to Texas, Florida and New York. He talks to Jeffrey Brown about what he saw and how he thinks about his own identity.
For the full story, please visit https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/this-author-traveled-across-the-country-to-ask-what-does-it-mean-to-be-latino.
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