A Conversation About Immigration
2007: A Conversation About Immigration with Dr. Ronald Takaki and Ms. Tamar Jacoby
The Fifth Annual Bazzani Lecture in Public Affairs, held on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, departed from the traditional single-speaker format to present a debate between two noted immigration experts.
Listen to the full program, including questions and answers. [mp3, 49mb]
Listen to the program without introductions and q-and-a. [mp3, 25mb]
Dr. Ronald Takaki has been a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for more than 30 years and is an internationally recognized scholar. His course, "The Making of Multicultural America: A Comparative Historical Perspective," provided the conceptual framework for the university’s B.A. program and the Ph.D. program in Comparative Ethnic Studies. Dr. Takaki has published 11 books on the topic of race and ethnic diversity, including A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.
Ms. Tamar Jacoby is the author of Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration, and editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American. She also is a prolific author of articles and essays that appear in newspapers such as The Washington Post, magazines such as The New Republic and reviews such asForeign Affairs. In addition to her published writings and media commentary, Ms. Jacoby has been working in Washington to help develop immigration policy, writing policy papers, testifying in Congress and working with a range of congressional offices. Ms. Jacoby is a former writer and editor at Newsweek magazine and spent six years as deputy editor of the op-ed page at The New York Times. She is a graduate of Yale University.
The discussion was moderated by Laura Washington, a well-respected Chicago journalist, commentator and civic activist. Washington, who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, In These Times magazine and appears regularly on WTTW-TV, will lead the discussion and guide the question-and-answer period that follows the presentation.
