Book Program: Hector Tobar - Talk on "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

Book Presentation, Talk, and Book Signing. Limited free copies of the book for LACC students!

In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now. Composed as a direct address to the young people who identify or have been classified as “Latino,” Our Migrant Souls is an account of the historical and social forces that define Latino identity. Tobar translates his experience as not only a journalist and novelist but also a mentor, a leader, and an educator. He interweaves his own story, and that of his parents’ migration to the United States from Guatemala, into his account of his journey across the country to uncover something expansive, inspiring, true, and alive about the meaning of “Latino” in the twenty-first century.

Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark and others. Héctor has written for The New York Times opinion pages, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, Héctor is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, and he is a native of LA.

Programming is made possible by the LACC Foundation and by the Margaret Garth Steinert Greene and Charles Richard Green Endowment.