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Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 5, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9781416540175 |
Publishers | Washington Square Press |
Pages | 323 |
Dimensions | 130 × 20 × 200 mm · 294 g |
Language | English |
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