Ask a Mexican

Name: Ask a Mexican
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gustavo Arellano
ISBN: 9781400174645

Author: Gustavo Arellano

Narrator: James Herrera, Christine Marshall, William Dufris

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor, Social Science

Synopsis

An irreverent, hilarious, and informative look at Mexican American culture is taken by a rising star in the alternative media, as well as a new kid on the block in such mainstream venues as NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Today, and The Colbert Report. Gustavo Arellano has compiled the best questions about Mexican Americans from readers of his Ask a Mexican! column in California's OC Weekly and uses them to explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power.

About Gustavo Arellano

Journalist Gustavo Arellano is the creator and writer of the popular Ask a Mexican! column-winner of the 2006 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Award for Best Column in a Large-Circulation Weekly-for the OC Weekly in Orange County, California. He is also a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times and has appeared on Today, Nightline, NPR's On the Media, and The Colbert Report.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Book Concierge

¡Ask a Mexican! – Gustavo Arellano 2** This is a collection of columns written by Arellano in California’s OC Weekly news magazine. It was originally suggested by his editor, and Arellano had been answering his “Why do Mexicans…..?” questions for five years. He didn’t mind being the source of cult......more

Goodreads review by LonewolfMX

From Orange County's Gustavo Arellano columns he create a book which he answers the questions to those who are curious about Mexicans and the Mexican culture. As a Mexican/Chicano I took a look at this book thinking it would be offensive, but to my surprise it was highly informative and humorous in w......more

Goodreads review by Rosemary

Absolutely loved this book. As a Chicana I couldn't help but laugh at myself. Arellano has a very unique approach in dealing with racist questions. When others will get outraged he prefers to counteract those comments and questions with comedy and sprinkling in some historical info along the way. I......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Very repetitive... And not nearly as fun, fierce or naughty as I had expected. Just a lot of pinche pendejo gabacho and other vocabulary fillers my El Salvadorian friends at high school already taught me.........more

Goodreads review by Sus

In general, I think this is great -- I really like Arellano's blend of no-holds-barred, vernacular lewdness with his periodic (and totally coherent) references to journal articles and his academic experience as a sociology M.S. (Do you want the lewd answer, the Catholic answer, the socioeconomic ans......more