Brown

At the core of this book is an assessment of the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America. Reflecting upon the new demographic profile of our country, Rodriguez observes that Hispanics are becoming Americanized at the same rate that the United States is becoming Latinized. Hispanics are coloring an American identity that traditionally has chosen to describe itself as black and white. But to describe "Brown" as a book about race is misleading. It is really a book 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.