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It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.

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I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman pulls you off to the side of the road, you ha…

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Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You…

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I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

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In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it becom…

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But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

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But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

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There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

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In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like th…

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So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the w…

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