How did you get to be Mexican?
Subtitle: a white/brown man's search for identity
By: Kevin R. Johnson.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Johnson, Kevin R; Mexican Americans -- Biography; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity; Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography; Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Biography.
Description: During an interview for a faculty position, a senior professor asked Kevin Johnson bluntly: "How did you get to be a Mexican?" On the other hand, a young woman at a Harvard Law School dinner party inquired: "Are you one of those people whose high school friends are all dead from gangs and stuff?" The son of a Mexican-American mother and an Anglo father, Johnson has spent his life in the borderlands between racial identities.

In this book, he uses his experiences as a mixed Latino/Anglo to examine issues of diversity, assimilation, Latino immigration, race relations, and affirmative action in the contemporary United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-234) and index.