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.
Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines
Griest, Stephanie Elizondo
$25.55 - $27.05
- UPC:
- 9781416540175
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2008-08-05
- Release Date:
- 2008-08-05
- Author:
- Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- 0