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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You: ¡Ask a Mexican!

By AAN Staff
march 28, 2007  09:40 am
Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You: ¡Ask a Mexican!
That's right: OC Weekly writer Gustavo Arellano's popular syndicated (and AltWeekly Award winning) column has spawned a book, aptly titled ¡Ask a Mexican!. Arellano says the hardcover book, a collection of some of his best columns, is due out May 1. In a review, Publishers Weekly says Arellano "wittily defuses bigotry and mocks stereotypes," adding: "The author's relentless irony and reclamation of derogatory terms is not for the faint of heart, but this approach is a welcome reprieve from common tiptoeing around the fraught subjects of race relations and immigration."
View full article at Publishers Weekly (Seventh item)
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