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A lawyer and professor describes growing up with a Mexican American mother who denied her heritage, and an Anglo father, and discusses racial identity in American society
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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 insightful 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.
Johnson also grew up in the borderlands between classes. He spent his childhood with his mother, first on welfare and then with a racist working-class stepfather. As an adolescent, he moved to his father's home in a predominantly white upper-middle-class suburb. His educational experiences, too, extend from a racially mixed elementary school to an all-white high school, and from Berkeley to Harvard Law School. From this vantage point, he analyzes the intersection of race and class in the United States. How Did You Get to Be Mexican? looks not just at the question "Who is a Latino?" but also at the question of where persons of mixed Anglo-Latino heritage fit into the racial dynamics of the United States.
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Kevin R. Johnson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis.
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- PublisherTemple University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1566396514
- ISBN 13 9781566396516
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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