Still radical after all these years …

… Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez | Book review | The TLS. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Rodriguez is unafraid, too, to challenge the orthodoxies of public opinion, and staunchly refused to fall in with a tribe. His views on affirmative action have made him “notorious among certain leaders of America’s Ethnic Left”, who consider him “a dupe, an ass, the fool – Tom Brown, the brown Uncle Tom, interpreting the writing on the wall to a bunch of cigar-smoking pharaohs”. It is not as a contrarian or devil’s advocate that he writes, however, but in pursuit of the truth about himself and the society in which he lives.