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Name: Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community
Date(s): 11/4/2009
Start Time: 3:30 pm
End Time: 5:30 pm
URL: http://
Price: Free
Location: Arkansas Union
Street: University of Arkansas
City: Fayetteville
Contact: Steve Voorhies
Contact Email: voorhies@uark.edu
Contact Phone: 479.575.3583

Marjorie Rosen, a writer and journalism professor from New York, will talk about her book, "Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community," in the Multicultural Center of the Arkansas Union at the University of Arkansas.

Her visit is being coordinated through the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism and the program in Latin American and Latino studies, both in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Boom Town is Rosen's account of how, since Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton arrived in Bentonville in 1950, the region has changed from an area of mostly white Christians to include African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Marshall Islanders and the fastest-growing Latino population in the country.

Rosen explores the social, political and cultural character of the United States through the microcosm of northwest Arkansas and the personal stories of its people.