Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in south Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native mexico to do some root-searc...Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in south Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core.