Richard Rodriguez on "Brown"

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Richard Rodriguez calls his latest book “Brown: The Last Discovery of America.”  He says brown people result from a mixing of races such as when the European met the Indian in the Americas.  He says African-Americans share in this mixed heritage. Rodriguez tells Steve Paulson why he celebrates being brown and says Hispanics are the first minority to self-identity by culture rather than race.