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Latinx enough?: whiteness, Latinidad and identity in memoirs of finding “home”

ABSTRACT Growing up in a mixed household with a Mexican father and a white mother, my identity as a Latinx was always in question. Through memoir writing and in conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines, and Anika Fajardo’s Magical Realism for Nonbelievers: A Memoir of Finding Home, I explore guilt, white privilege, and Latinx identity to unearth the different ways this mixture affects our self-perceptions. In the end, I find that Latinidad for half-white, half-Latinx is an intensely personal choice, a choice that has important repercussions for an increasing part of the Latinx population.