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Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines

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By Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Publisher Washington Square Press - (Washington Square Press)
Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines
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Growing up in a halfwhite, halfbrown 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 rootsearching 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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84050 words84,050 words
336 pages336 pages
Lexile 910LLexile 910L
Published 2008Published 2008

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9781416540175

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