[1] Richard Rodriguez, "My Heterosexual Dilemma", Pacific News, 16 October 1998: "As a gay man, I do not expect other Americans -- male or female -- to approve of my sexuality. But I demand the right to be. And I refuse to be saddled with responsibility for what is wrong with male-female relations."
Father: Leopoldo Rodriguez
Mother: Victoria Moran Rodriguez
University: BA, Stanford University (1967)
University: MS, Columbia University
University: PhD English Renaissance Literature, UC Berkeley
Scholar: Warburg Institute, London (1972-73, on a Fulbright)
Fulbright 1972
Mexican Ancestry (both parents)
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Author of books:
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982, essays)
Mexico's Children (1990)
Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father (1992)
Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002)