Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Rodriguez
Author First Name:
Richard
Pages:
256
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN 10:
0142000795
ISBN 13:
9780142000793
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Date Published:
3/25/2003
Genre:
Memoir
Description
In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense-a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker. San Francisco Chronicle Brown is an eloquent, nuanced plea for the individual as the primary force in American life...