Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez has written widely on issues of national identity, social cohesion, assimilation, race relations, religion, immigration, ethnicity, demographics, and social and political trends in such leading publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, where he is an op-ed columnist. The Economist has praised him for "decisively changing the understanding of the Latino experience in the United States," and Esquire Magazine listed him among the "Best and Brightest" Americans who will revolutionize the way we think. His essay "Mongrel America," which first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, was included in The Best American Political Writing of 2003 (Thunder's Mouth Press).

Mr. Rodriguez is the author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (Pantheon, 2007). The book discusses how contemporary Mexican immigration will change the way Americans view race.

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