The policy of affirmative action, however, was never able to distinguish someone like me (a graduate student of English, ambitious for a college teaching career) from a slightly educated Mexican-American who lived in a barrio and worked as a menial laborer, never expecting a future improved. Worse, affirmative action made me the beneficiary of his conditions.


Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)

Richard Rodriguez Quotes

The policy of affirmative action, however, was never able to distinguish someone like me (a graduate student of English, ambitious for a college...

The policy of affirmative action, however, was never able to distinguish someone like me (a graduate student of English, ambitious for a college...

The policy of affirmative action, however, was never able to distinguish someone like me (a graduate student of English, ambitious for a college...

The policy of affirmative action, however, was never able to distinguish someone like me (a graduate student of English, ambitious for a college...