TN Writers/TN Stories with Sheri Sellmeyer

Sheri Sellmeyer, Nashville’s New Americans: Tracing the Journeys of Immigrant Neighbors (Vanderbilt University Press) in conversation with Cindy Abrams

Whether it’s building skyscrapers, running successful restaurants, researching diseases, performing music, cleaning hotel rooms, or holding public office, immigrants are changing Nashville from a mid‑sized city known for its country music industry to an increasingly diverse, multicultural destination. Through its profiles of thirty-nine immigrants from thirty-eight countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Australia, Nashville’s New Americans provides a case study from one of the fastest-growing cities in the country on the contributions immigrants are making to its culture and economy.