Brown : The Last Discovery of America

English

ISBN: 0142000795

EAN: 9780142000793

Category: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural/Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies/Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations/Psychology / Ethnopsychology/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 04/30/2003

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: 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 sensea 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.

Awards: California Book Awards – null  California Book Awards – null 

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Brown : The Last Discovery of America

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.51 inches

Width: 5.24 inches

Length: 7.98 inches

Weight: 6.24 oz

Pages: 256