Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines
of Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Description
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 mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles 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 Enough illuminates 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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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336 pages
- Publisher Washington Square Press
- Publication Date August 5th 2008
- First Publication 11/06/08
- Language English
- ISBN 9781416540175
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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