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Feb. 14, 2008 - Hastings College to host author Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez, author and Emmy-winning essayist, will speak at Hastings College, Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m., in French Memorial Chapel.
Sponsored by the college’s Artist Lecture Series National Speaker’s Committee, the presentation is free and open to the public.
The son of Mexican immigrant parents, Rodriguez grew up in Sacramento, Calif. He addresses the topics of Hispanics in America, miscegenation and national history, and religion in America. He became famous for his 1981 book, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiographical trilogy on class, ethnicity and race.
A vocal opponent of bilingual education and affirmative action, Rodriguez said he hopes students won’t get caught up in “a romantic notion of the intellectual, the individual.” The most important lesson they can learn, he said is their obligation to community and culture – American culture.
As a journalist, Rodriguez worked for more than 20 years for the Pacific News Service in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor at New America Media, has been a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and the Sunday “Opinion” section of the Los Angeles Times. He also writes regularly for several newspapers and magazines, in England.
Rodriguez authored Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, (1992) and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002). He is currently working on a book concerned with the ecology of the desert and monotheism.
Rodriguez did undergraduate work at Stanford University, and then spent two years in a religious studies program at Columbia University. He studied English Renaissance literature at Warburg Institute in London and was a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Feb. 14, 2008 - Hastings College to host author Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez, author and Emmy-winning essayist, will speak at Hastings College, Thursday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m., in French Memorial Chapel.
Sponsored by the college’s Artist Lecture Series National Speaker’s Committee, the presentation is free and open to the public.
The son of Mexican immigrant parents, Rodriguez grew up in Sacramento, Calif. He addresses the topics of Hispanics in America, miscegenation and national history, and religion in America. He became famous for his 1981 book, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiographical trilogy on class, ethnicity and race.
A vocal opponent of bilingual education and affirmative action, Rodriguez said he hopes students won’t get caught up in “a romantic notion of the intellectual, the individual.” The most important lesson they can learn, he said is their obligation to community and culture – American culture.
As a journalist, Rodriguez worked for more than 20 years for the Pacific News Service in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor at New America Media, has been a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and the Sunday “Opinion” section of the Los Angeles Times. He also writes regularly for several newspapers and magazines, in England.
Rodriguez authored Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, (1992) and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002). He is currently working on a book concerned with the ecology of the desert and monotheism.
Rodriguez did undergraduate work at Stanford University, and then spent two years in a religious studies program at Columbia University. He studied English Renaissance literature at Warburg Institute in London and was a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.
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