Mexican Enough : My Life between the Borderlines

English

ISBN: 1416540172

EAN: 9781416540175

Category: Travel / Mexico/Travel / Essays & Travelogues/

Publisher: Washington Square Press

Release Date: 08/01/2008

Synopsis: Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mothers native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core.Mexican Enoughchronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist, and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage,Mexican Enoughilluminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.

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Mexican Enough : My Life between the Borderlines

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 9.91 oz

Pages: 336