I am reading "Mexican White Boy." From what I have read, the conflict seems to be that, his parents (mom white, father Mexican) come from such different backgrounds and ethnicity that they just didn't want to live together so his dad took off and it really set Danny back and hurt him. This summer he's going to live with his Mexican family by the border, which will change his life. He plays baseball, pitches a 94 mile an hour fast ball but nobody really believes in him or expects much from the brown messed up kid. His mom always finds herself to be depressed and sometimes he hurts himself to see that he's still a real person. His mom is dating a white buisness man and he and sister Julia are not happy at all about that and they don't really like him just because they love their mom and they feel like she's theirs, not some random guy's.
      I find this book to be a little racist in the sense that the mom says "I will never be getting involved with another Mexican man again only white" when diverse couples are common in America nowadays. Also, when Danny goes to visit his family, all of them get in trouble, arrested or they are in gangs, when Danny is a straight A student and doesn't get in trouble. So I think the author's view on Mexicans compared to whites is racist, but maybe he's just trying to make the main idea of the book that biracial kids and couples are fine, and if you love someone, it shouldn't matter about their skin tone, it should matter about the things that are important like personalities.
    My cousin had an African American father and a white mom. She has friends of all different racial backgrounds, so it really doesn't matter what your skin color is, and a lot of people in this world are quick to judge people of color but it's wrong to criticize another human being based on skin tone when skin tone doesn't mean anything. Your personality should decide how a person feels about you. As the great Martin Luther King said, "I hope that one day my children will be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin."