SCU Alumni Network Connections: Masha Rumer ‘01
The SCU experience continues to invigorate our alumni's engagement with themes relevant to sociology
By Masha Rumer ‘01
I'm a graduate of Santa Clara University (English and Philosophy, class of 2001), with a nonfiction book about immigrant families recently out in paperback. My book, Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children, published by Beacon Press, is a timely and compassionate look into the immigrant family experience in the United States. It weaves together my personal stories with more than sixty interviews with immigrants and world-renowned experts in sociology, psychology and speech language pathology (including with Drs. Philip Kasinitz and Nazli Kibria). A large part of the book describes the Bay Area immigrant community.
The book was lauded by Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, KQED, and others. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post.