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Mexican Enough|Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Mexican Enough : My Life Between the Borderlines

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Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist, and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781416540175
  • ISBN-10: 1416540172
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Publish Date: August 2008
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
  • Page Count: 336

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