num_pages: 212
description: Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a minority student who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation--from his past, his parents, his culture--and so describes the high price of making it in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
language: English
title: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
titlecomplete: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
genres: Autobiography, College, Education, Race, Biography Memoir, Read For School, Biography, School, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3378
places: Sacramento, California, California
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Gold)
publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback