Kevin R. Johnson: How Did You Get to Be Mexican?

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A readable account of a life spent in the borderlands between racial identity<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566396509&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1398_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>How Did You Get to Be Mexican?</h1> <H2>A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity</H2> <h3>Kevin R. Johnson</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-650-6 $54.50, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-651-4 $33.95, Apr 01, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-59213-818-7 $33.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 264 pp 6x9 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Engaging and warmly inviting. Funny and tragic by turns, this book has a momentum that carries the reader along. Johnson's struggles reverberate beyond himself; the incidents he recounts, whether dramatic or small, apply to the lives of others who have had to deal with poverty, class origins, and racial stereotyping."</I> <BR>&#151<B>Richard Delgado</B>, co-editor of <I>Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror</I><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question "Who is a Latino?" and determines where persons of mixed Anglo-Latino heritage fit into the racial dynamics of the United States. The son of a Mexican-American mother and an Anglo father, Kevin 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, race relations, and affirmative action in contemporary United States. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"A compelling and thoughtful portrayal of the struggle for identity faced by a sensitive young man who did not fit neatly into the artificial racial and ethnic categories embedded in the political and cultural fabric of this nation."</I> <br>&#151<b>Gregory H. Williams</b>, Dean of Ohio State University College of Law <p>Read a review on <a href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3014960933857" target="new">H-Net</a>, June 2000. <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br>1. Introduction <br>2. A "Latino" Law Student? Law 4 Sale at Harvard Law School <br>3. My Mother: One Assimilation Story <br>4. My Father: Planting the Seeds of a Racial Consciousness <br>5. Growing Up White? <br>6. College: Beginning to Recognize Racial Complexities <br>A Family Gallery <br>7. A Corporate Lawyer: Happily Avoiding the Issue <br>8. A Latino Law Professor <br>9. My Family/Mi Familia <br>10. Lessons for Latino Assimilation <br>11. What Does It All Mean for Race Relations in the United States? <br>Notes <br>Bibliography <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1398_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Kevin R. Johnson</B> is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. He is author of a number of law review articles on civil procedure, civil rights, race relations, immigration law, and refugee law. He has also written <i><a href="1597_reg.html" target="_top">The "Huddled Masses" Myth</a></i> (Temple).</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/latino.html" TARGET="_top">Latino/a Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/law.html" TARGET="_top">Law and Criminology</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566396509&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1398_reg.html</font></p>