Un retrato que, además de dar cuenta de la vida de una ciudad, narra la historia de un país, así como su discurrir político y social. She is an NPR NextGen Radio and ProPublica/Ida B Wells Data Institute fellow.«Como el Londres de Dickens, el París de Proust o la Barcelona de Juan Marsé, Bombay es un escenario que parece inventado para el lucimiento y la capacidad de observación de Suketu Mehta, un autor que se siente a sus anchas en el caos de una ciudad tan inmensa como este libro.» El editor Ciudad total lleva a cabo uno de los retratos de la ciudad de Bombay más fabulosos y ambiciosos que se han escrito hasta la fecha. Her work has appeared in NPR, High Country News, and The Washington Post. She covers immigration and identity in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. He was born in Calcutta and lives in New York City, where he is an associate professor of journalism at New York University.Įsmy Jimenez is a bilingual journalist born in Mexico and raised in rural Washington state. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, and GQ. Suketu Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Join Mehta as he argues that immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish, and that the West is not destroyed by immigrants-but rather by fear of immigrants. He explores the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swaths of the world, including civil strife and climate change, and their direct impact on why there are more people on the move today than ever before. He examines anti-immigrant backlash, and juxtaposes it against the ordinary heroism of laborers, nannies, and others. But do we really understand it? Renowned author Suketu Mehta joins us in conversation with journalist Esmy Jimenez to tackle that question head-on.ĭrawing from his book This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, he shares his experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and as a journalist with years of reporting around the world. There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration.

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