Mexican Enough by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Just finished an excellent book "Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines" by Stephanie Elizondo Griest. Ms. Griest writes her book as an auto-biographical assertion of a year she spend traveling through Mexico. She decided to take this trip to discover her Mexican roots as a biracial woman in modern America. While this is the stated thesis of this book I find it isn't the most interesting or prevalent theme.

For me, a person with no Mexican blood, the book is fascinating for the stories it tells. Ms. Griest is clearly a progressive liberal and tells important Mexican stories from that prospective. She writes about the conditions facing Mexicans; poverty, joblessness, violence, workers' struggles, children's struggles, freedom of speech and press rights, the and the gay rights struggle just to name a few through the eyes of a progressive educated American.

I'm not sure that Ms Griest accomplishes her personal goal of taking possession of her Mexican roots but she does write a very interesting book about the modern struggles of the Mexican people. I would strongly recommend this book to any progressive striving to make sense of the immigration problems in this country.