Roberto Suro, the American-born son of a Puerto Rican father and an Ecuadorean mother, began his journalism career in 1974 in Chicago, where he first wrote about immigration. He was a correspondent for Time in the Middle East and a bureau chief for the New York Times in Rome and in Houston, and is now a staff writer at the Washington Post. He is the author of two Twentieth Century Fund papers on immigration: Remembering the American Dream: Hispanic Immigration and National Policy and Watching America's Door: The Immigration Backlash and the New Policy Debate. Mr. Suro lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their two children.
"An elegant writer and a wise analyst, Roberto Suro has produced
one of the most searching books in years on immigration and
America's Latinos. It reflects an independent mind unafraid to
break with orthodoxies, and the compassionate heart of a writer who
is proud to be an American and proud of his Latin forebears."--E.
J. Dionne
"With a welcome indifference to Mexican or American political
correctness, Suro brilliantly explains how and why millions of
Latin Americans immigrate to the United States. Strangers Among Us
tells a sad and heroic story with the kind of insight and frankness
that is usually absent in the debate on immigration in the United
States."--Jorge G. Castañeda
"Roberto Suro appreciates, indeed courts, what many journalists
disdain: complexity and subtlety in his analysis. He explains who
Latinos are and how they're 'transforming' America, and at the same
time he shows why Latino Americans, like any minority or immigrant
group, defy convenient categorization."--William J. Bennett
"Roberto Suro's Strangers Among Us is a powerful antidote to the
American xenophobia and racism that too often poison the well for
the children and grandchildren of hardworking Latino immigrants. In
this brilliant and humane book, Suro argues persuasively that our
fear of these immigrants, who will be our largest ethnic minority
in the coming century, is the greatest obstacle to their productive
assimilation."--Victor Perera
"A really important book, full of solid research that leads to some
surprising--and disturbing--conclusions. Roberto Suro knows his
stuff and it shows."--Evan Thomas
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