Title: How did you get to be Mexican?
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Mexican Americans, Racially mixed people, Biography, Ethnic identity, Race identity, Race relations, United states, race relations, Mexico, biography
Places: United States
People: Kevin R. Johnson
LC classification: E184.M5 J58 1999