Author Héctor Tobar is not surprised by the recent spate of measures to restrict diversity and inclusion efforts in education. “There are a lot of people who are threatened by Latinos when they are ...

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"We need to find new ways of being in solidarity," says Héctor Tobar, whose latest book, "Our Migrant Souls," examines Latino identity. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Héctor Tobar is tired of ...

Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Héctor Tobar about his new book, “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino.” In it, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UCSC alumnus Hector Tobar spoke on campus November 15 at a luncheon reception sponsored by El Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center. Tobar, 44, Mexico City ...

In his decades-long career, Héctor Tobar has become practically synonymous with Los Angeles. The journalist and author grew up in East Hollywood, and for years worked for the Los Angeles Times as a ...

Benigno Trigo is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities, Spanish and Portuguese College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt’s new semester has begun. I teach a ...

Héctor Tobar is tired of the Latino caricature. It’s everywhere from Netflix to the nightly news, from the Instagram feeds of the red-pilled to the bookshelves of the “woke.” Conservative ...

Héctor Tobar is tired of the Latino caricature. The book’s subtitle, “A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino,’” reflects Tobar’s commitment to gray areas and contradictions. He ...