Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City is a finalist for the “Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book” presented by International Latino Book Awards. Barrio America is the latest book by Richards Center faculty affiliate Dr. Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, associate professor of history. The book explores how Latino and Latina immigrants revived American cities beginning in the 1970s, following decades of disinvestment and white migration to the suburbs.