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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodríguez

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Release: February 03, 2004

ISBN: 0553231936

ISBN 13: 9780553382518

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodríguez

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Release: February 03, 2004

ISBN: 0553231936

ISBN 13: 9780553382518

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