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4770978Hey, Liberal!https://www.gandhi.com.mx/hey--liberal--9781613735633/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3634609/dbce135c-c6cb-4acc-997a-6fa7eeb2b7cc.jpg?v=638873462443870000171190MXNChicago Review PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, thirteen-year-old Simon Fleming, the white son of a civil rights activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged by his parents to carry out the familys commitment to the community and school integration. Here, he is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simons quest for survival takes him through a failed student boycott organized by community leaders, as well as through numerous race riots, and brings him into contact with gangbangers, political activists, racist cops, and unlikely new friends. <em>Hey, Liberal!</em> exposes an out-of-touch education system and the universality of racial violence amid a nation moving, inch by hard-fought inch, toward a more culturally diverse and inclusive future.</p>...4150274Hey, Liberal!171190https://www.gandhi.com.mx/hey--liberal--9781613735633/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3634609/dbce135c-c6cb-4acc-997a-6fa7eeb2b7cc.jpg?v=638873462443870000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781613735633_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_<p>In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, thirteen-year-old Simon Fleming, the white son of a civil rights activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged by his parents to carry out the familys commitment to the community and school integration. Here, he is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simons quest for survival takes him through a failed student boycott organized by community leaders, as well as through numerous race riots, and brings him into contact with gangbangers, political activists, racist cops, and unlikely new friends. <em>Hey, Liberal!</em> exposes an out-of-touch education system and the universality of racial violence amid a nation moving, inch by hard-fought inch, toward a more culturally diverse and inclusive future.</p>...9781613735633_Chicago Review Presslibro_electonico_9781613735633_9781613735633Shawn ShiflettInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-77494d0b-0620-4292-84ce-bbd571429e1c.epub2016-09-01T00:00:00+00:00Chicago Review Press