Brown: the Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez

I'm not quite sure what to make of this book. It reads very beautifully; Rodriguez has a real command of the language. Additionally, the book is full of allusion and neat references. Still, underneath that content, the politics of the book are vaguely disturbing, and the book itself is so self-contradictory that I don't know if it's possible to take it seriously at all. Rodriguez wants brown to signify everything--which means it ultimately is no help.