num_pages: 232
description: 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.
language: English
title: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
titlecomplete: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
genres: History, Cultural, Race, Grad School, Biography, School, Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Politics
ratings_count: 511
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Gold), awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Penguin Books