I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

- Ruth Behar

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

- Ruth Behar

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating …

- Ruth Behar

In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, …

- Ruth Behar