{"id":26705,"date":"2012-11-27T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26705"},"modified":"2017-04-11T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:49:16","slug":"rose-hill-an-intermarriage-before-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26705","title":{"rendered":"Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heyday Books<\/a>
\nMarch 2012
\n192 pages
\n5.5 x 8.5
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-59714-188-8<\/p>\n

Carlos Cort\u00e9s<\/a><\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of History
\nUniversity of California, Riverside<\/em><\/p>\n

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A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDad was a Mexican Catholic. Mom was a Kansas City\u2013born Jew with Eastern European immigrant parents. They fell in love in Berkeley, California<\/a>, and got married in Kansas City, Missouri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That alone would not have been a big deal. But it happened in 1933, when such marriages were rare. And my parents spent most of their lives in Kansas City, a place both racially segregated and religiously divided.<\/p>\n

Mom and Dad chose to be way ahead of their time; I didn\u2019t. But because of them, I had to be. My mixed background meant that, however unwillingly, I had to learn to live as an outsider.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos Cort\u00e9s grew up wedged between cultures, living a childhood in \u201cconstant crossfire-straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, and trying to fit into a world that wasn\u2019t quite ready.\u201d In some ways, even his family wasn\u2019t quite ready (for him). His request for a bar mitzvah<\/a> sent his proud father into a cursing rage. He was terrified to bring home the Catholic girl he was dating, for fear of wounding his mother and grandparents. When he tried to join a high school fraternity, Christians wouldn\u2019t take him because he was Jewish, and Jews looked sideways at him because his father was Mexican.<\/p>\n

In his new memoir, Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time<\/em>, Cort\u00e9s lovingly chronicles his family\u2019s tumultuous, decades-long spars over religion, class, and culture, from his early years in legally segregated Kansas City during the 1940s to his return to Berkeley (where his parents met) in the 1950s, and to his parents\u2019 separation, reconciliation, deaths, and eventual burials at the Rose Hill Cemetery. Cort\u00e9s elevates the theme of intermarriage to a new level of complexity in this closely observed and emotionally fraught memoir adapted from his nationally successful one-man play, A Conversation with Alana: One Boy\u2019s Multicultural Rite of Passage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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