Tom O’Connell interviews this new book’s authors, Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block.
"Driving While Brown" documents Arizona’s relentless immigration crackdowns, which were championed by Arpaio who became the nation’s most notorious immigration enforcer. The authors interviewed the sheriff, victims of his policies, his loyal supporters, and his tenacious opponents who stood up for their community and immigrants. The tense narrative follows Latino activists who launched a landmark racial-profiling lawsuit against the sheriff. With a white majority losing demographic and political ground as the backdrop, this is the story of the struggle over immigration in America.
Tom O’Connell is a retired Metro State University Professor, former ESFL Board member, and a long time radio talk show host.
Terry Greene Sterling is affiliated faculty and writer-in-residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Village Voice, High Country News, and The Guardian. The Arizona Press Club has named her the state’s top journalist three times.
Jude Joffe-Block is a reporter and editor at the Associated Press, working in both English and Spanish on the news verification team. Before that, she reported on immigration for more than a decade for outlets that include NPR and the Guardian.
