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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Rodriguez, Richard
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670030430
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030439
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About This Item
New York: Viking; Penguin, 2002. xv, 232 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense - a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker. / Richard Rodriguez works as an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco and is a contributing editor for Harper's magazine and the Sunday 'Opinion' section of the Los Angeles Times." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
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- Title
- Brown: The Last Discovery of America
- Author
- Rodriguez, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670030430
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030439
- Publisher
- Viking; Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Genre & Subject / Gay & Lesbian; Latin American / Mexican; American / Latin American;
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