Tulsa City-County Library continues its celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a visit from best-selling author and journalist Roberto Suro.
Suro will speak, answer questions and sign copies of his books at the Martin Regional Library, 2601 S. Garnett Road, Oct. 2, 7 p.m.
Suro was the inaugural speaker when Tulsa City-County Library’s Hispanic Resource Center opened in 1999. He returns to Tulsa during Hispanic Heritage Month to speak about this latest work, “Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue,” and discuss changes in the U.S. Latino community over the past 15 years.
He is the author of “Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America,” “Watching America’s Door: The Immigration Backlash and the New Policy Debate” and “Remembering the American Dream: Hispanic Immigration and the National Policy.” He also has written numerous other articles related to Latinos and immigration.
Currently, he is a professor in the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, and director of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, an interdisciplinary university research center exploring the challenges and opportunities of demographic diversity in the 21st-century global city.
His career began as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. He then served as a correspondent for Time, doing work in Washington, Beirut and Rome. He worked as a bureau chief for the New York Times in Rome and Houston. In 1994 he joined The Washing Post.
Suro’s visit is sponsored by the Tulsa Library Trust, Hispanic Resource Center, Greater Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Yolanda Charney, with additional assistance provided by the Mary K. Chapman Foundation and George Kaiser Family Foundation.
For more information on Suro’s visit or other Hispanic Heritage Month activities, call the AskUs Hotline, 918-549-7323, or visit the library’s website, www.tulsalibrary.org.
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