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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
By
Heidi Durrow
Published by Algonquin Books
A timely and moving bicultural coming-of-age tale about the daughter
of a Danish immigrant and a black GI. A beauty with light brown skin
and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world
wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she
sees herself.
Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's
last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven with her voice are those
of Jamie, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events, and Laronne,
a friend of Rachel's mother.
Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love, The Girl Who
Fell from the Sky reveals an unfathomable past and explores issues
of identity at a time when many people are asking "Must race
confine us and define us?"
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The Illegal Alien: A Dagger into the Heart of America??
By
Raoul Lowery Contreras
Published by Floricanto Press
Illegal Alien is the most reasoned analysis to date of the most controversial
of illegal immigration and its growing impact on the American economy
and way of life. Mr. Contreras makes a historical comparison of immigration
and a well-documented scrutiny of the vocal opinions of well-known anti-immigrant
spoke-persons as well as those who seek unrestricted openness of our
borders.
"With impeccable logic, Raoul Lowery Contreras demolishes the drivel
emanating from anti-immigration fanatics - the "knuckle-dragging
element within the Republican Party," as he puts it. Yet he is
clear-eyed enough to also take on the "professional plantationeers"
of the radical Chicano movement and their liberal sponsors on America's
campuses and at activist "minority" groups. A cry for common
sense from the radical center, showing American Hispanics can - and
must - punch to the left and to the right." Roger E. Hernández
Nationally Syndicated Columnist
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