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Hunger of Memory

The Education of Richard Rodriguez

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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.

©1982 Richard Rodriguez (P)2018 Tantor Americas Cultural & Regional Education Social Sciences Latin American
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describes how i felt as someone with enlgish previously as my second language, now my first.

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