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Brown

The Last Discovery of America

The Last Discovery of America

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

By Richard Rodriguez

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Mar 25, 2003 | ISBN 9780142000793

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Mar 25, 2003 | ISBN 9781101161500

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    About Brown

    In this dazzling 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.

    About Brown

    In this dazzling 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.

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    About Richard Rodriguez

    Richard Rodriguez has authored a “trilogy” on American public life and his private life—Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown—concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print. Most recently he wrote Darling, a… More about Richard Rodriguez

    About Richard Rodriguez

    Richard Rodriguez has authored a “trilogy” on American public life and his private life—Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown—concerned, respectively, with class, ethnicity, and race in America. He has also worked as a journalist on television and in print. Most recently he wrote Darling, a… More about Richard Rodriguez

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 25, 2003 | 256 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142000793

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 25, 2003 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101161500

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    Praise

    “The recurrent strands of his thought—family, education, race, sex, California, America, Mexico—gain a new resonance each time and stand, in the end, for the complexity of a whole greater than the sum of its parts.” —The New York Times Book Review“Brown is an elegant, nuanced plea for the individual as the primary force in American life…. But as admirable as it is in its vision, Brown is more intriguing for it honesty about the author’s desires and frustrations.” —San Francisco Chronicle

     

     

    Awards

    Booklist Editor’s Choice WINNER

    California Book Award WINNER

    Table Of Contents

    Brown – Richard Rodriguez Preface
    One: The Triad of Alexis de Tocqueville
    Two: In the Brown Study
    Three: The Prince and I
    Four: Poor Richard
    Five: Hispanic
    Six: The Third Man
    Seven: Dreams of a Temperate People
    Eight: Gone West
    Nine: Peter’s Avocado
    Acknowledgments

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