Memories of a Mexican Boy from El Paso: Crossing Over into White America
Part 1: Trying to Become White My mother emigrated from Mexico with her parents around the Mexican Revolution, and my father was born in Valentine, Texas in 1913 soon after his parents had also emigrated from Mexico. I was born in El Paso just across the Rio Grande, learning later I was a Chicano or first-generation Mexican American. The white… Read more →