“In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.”

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

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American journalist and essayist 1944

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