Tenement Talk: Xochitl Gonzalez
Novelist and Atlantic journalist Xochitl Gonzalez joins the Tenement Museum's signature talk series to explore identity, immigration, and what it means to be American.
Why we picked this
Gonzalez writes about Brooklyn gentrification and Latine identity with the kind of specificity that turns personal experience into something structurally revealing. The Tenement Museum is exactly the right setting for it.
Xochitl Gonzalez — novelist, Atlantic journalist, and Brooklyn native — joins the Tenement Museum’s Tenement Talk series for a conversation about immigration, identity, and the evolving meaning of being American. Gonzalez brings both the storytelling instincts of her fiction (Olga Dies Dreaming) and the analytical lens of her journalism to questions that the Tenement Museum has been posing since it opened its doors.
The Tenement Talk series invites writers, thinkers, and public figures to connect their own experiences to the broader immigrant narrative that the museum preserves. Gonzalez’s particular lens — as a first-generation Brooklyn Latina who has written extensively about gentrification, class, and cultural identity — makes her a natural fit for a building that has always been about who gets to belong and on what terms.
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