Unsung America by Prerna Lal

Unsung America

Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom

Prerna Lal, Allegra McLeod

Mango · Print & ebook · October 15, 2019

Immigration Stories–A Fight for Justice and Freedom Discover both triumphant and painful real life tales of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in the fight for fundamental human rights.

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Who it’s for
Explore immigrant trailblazers’ varied tactics, theories of social change, and connections to wider justice struggles.
Genres
Immigration & Emigration, Activism & Social Justice, Immigration & Emigration Law
Published
Mango, October 15, 2019

About this book

Immigration Stories–A Fight for Justice and Freedom Discover both triumphant and painful real life tales of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in the fight for fundamental human rights. Positive and heroic stories. Far too often, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. Unsung heroes. Learn about the trials and triumphs of ordinary people fighting for citizenship as immigrants in a new land.

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Each uses different strategies and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common, however—a desire for racial and social justice. Unsung America may change the way you view immigrants and refugees. Prerna Lal, who penned Unsung America , is a naturalized United States citizen, born and raised in the Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. A clinical law professor, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration, racial justice, sexual orientation, and how these forces intersect. She is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School, and works as an immigration attorney. In this celebratory book discover: Powerful theories of social change, and how what seems radical in one era can be normalized in the next How the fight for citizenship is interconnected and interrelated to other struggles such as the civil rights movement and the LGBT movement Stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things and how you, too, can be a force for good in the world If you liked The Book of Awesome Women by Becca Anderson, Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas, or American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrara, you’ll love Unsung America . Read more

Citizenship and Justice

Explore immigrant trailblazers’ varied tactics, theories of social change, and connections to wider justice struggles.

Come here for

  • Real-life stories of immigrants fighting for citizenship
  • Connections between citizenship struggles and civil rights and LGBT movements

Expect

  • Stories of ordinary people pursuing racial and social justice
  • How ideas once considered radical can become normalized

Where it sits

Immigration & Emigration60%
Activism & Social Justice29%
Immigration & Emigration Law23%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Civics
Authors
Prerna Lal, Allegra McLeod
Publisher
Mango
Published
October 15, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Civics