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Hey, Liberal!

A Novel

Shawn Shiflett

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English
Chicago Review Press
08 December 2016
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 family's commitment to the community and school integration. Here, he is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simon's 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. Hey, Liberal!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.
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Imprint:   Chicago Review Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   362g
ISBN:   9781613735602
ISBN 10:   161373560X
Pages:   312
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Shawn Shiflettis an associate professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of Hidden Place, which was included in Library Journal's 2004 ""Summer Highs, Fall Firsts"" list of ""most successful debuts.""

Reviews for Hey, Liberal!: A Novel

People are always afraid of the truth. <i>Hey, Liberal!</i> is, I believe, a work of courage, and we all need to thank Shawn Shiflett for it. Charles Johnson, award winning author of <i>Middle Passage</i>


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