In conversation with Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR correspondent
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds:
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
The iconoclastic Los Angeles Times columnist discusses how the mestizo legacy of Mexican-Americans, the largest immigrant group in the country's history, will forever change how Americans think about race and ethnicity.
Los Angeles-based Gregory Rodriguez is a journalist, a former MSNBC political analyst and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in such leading publications as The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. He is the Director of the California Fellows Program and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy institute.
Karen Grigsby Bates is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for "Day to Day," NPR's midday news magazine, where she reports on both breaking news (Katrina, the Southeast Asian Tsunami, the execution of Tookie Williams) and features. She is especially interested in issues that involve the nexus of politics, culture and race. Bates was a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times Op-Ed page for ten years, and a news correspondent for People magazine.
