Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul.

Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

Biographies & Memoirs

Rodriguez, Richard

Community & Culture

Penguin Publishing Group

In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Arts & Literature

An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11 Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. Rodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist—moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration of women—their importance to Rodriguez’s spiritual formation and their centrality to the future of the desert religions. Only a mind as elastic and refined as Rodriguez’s could bind these threads together into this wonderfully complex tapestry.

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin??Books

HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

A personal account of what it has cost the author, nonmonetarily, to be educated beyond his origins as the son of Mexican immigrants rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Bantam]

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his parents, his culture — and so describes the high price of “making it” in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Dial Press Trade Paperback

Title: Darling( A Spiritual Autobiography) Binding: Hardcover Author: RichardRodriguez Publisher: Viking

VIKING

The author of Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation concludes his "trilogy of American public life" by contemplating the many cultural associations of the color brown--toil, decay, impurity, and time--as he considers the meaning of Hispanics in American society. 30,000 first printing.

Viking Adult

Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father

Spurred by the memory of an argument with his father, a controversial thinker relates his views on topics that range from the conquest of Mexico to the AIDS epidemic. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour. First serial, Harper's.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors.

Hunger Of Memory: The Education Of Richard Rodriguez (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

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Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

Hunger Of Memory: The Education Of Richard Rodriguez (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)