Description
This panel explored the diverse range of cultural identities within Virginia and provided two free, back-to-back book talks at the University of Virginia’s Culbreth Theatre. This panel was part of the State of Many Nations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Authors included: Gustavo Pérez Firmat, author of Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way, has published a number of books of literary and cultural criticism, as well as poetry collections in English and Spanish.
Tom Gjelten is an NPR correspondent, veteran journalist, and author of A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story, a story of the transformation of America since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, as seen through families in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Lloyd Wolf is an award-winning photographer and co-author of Living Diversity: The Columbia Pike Documentary Project, which captures the exceptional diversity of people living and working along the Columbia Pike in Arlington, Virginia.
The authors presented a combination of stories, data, and images related to Virginia’s changing demographic and the faces, cultures, and voices of immigrants.
