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Title:   Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Participants:   Gregory Rodriguez
Program Date:    11/13/2007
Program length:    1.5hrs
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

The iconoclastic Los Angeles Times columnist discusses how the mestizo legacy of Mexican-Americans, the largest immigrant group in the country's history, will forever change how Americans think about race and ethnicity.


Participant(s) Bio

Los Angeles-based Gregory Rodriguez is a journalist, a former MSNBC political analyst and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in such leading publications as The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. He is the Director of the California Fellows Program and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy institute.


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