Anand Pandian was born and raised in the United States, and like many people, he has been increasingly concerned about the direction things are going in the country, especially as someone whose parents came to America with the hope of finding a better life for themselves and their children.
“The xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric of these last years was disturbing to me,” said Pandian, the Krieger-Eisenhower professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
He put his skills to work and did what he knew how: He wrote his fifth book, “Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down,” for which he will receive the 2026 Zócalo Book Prize on June 25 at ASU California Center Broadway. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 