Hey, liberal! : a novel / Shawn Shiflett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shiflett, Shawn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American high school students--Fiction.

African American high school students.

White people--Fiction.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Academy Chicago, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: Chump Change; Part I: A Long Day; 1. Demands; 2. Death Knocks; 3. Honky Love; 4. Mira, Mira!; 5. Amoeba Politics; 6. Drivers' Education; 7. 'Tis the Season to Be Jolly; 8. The Body Politic; 9. Home Front; Part II: Boycott; 10. Happy New Year; 11. Détente; 12. Paranoia Will Destroy Ya; 13. Demands; 14. Dynamite; 15. Black Power; 16. Baby and Me; 17. Nazi Nuts; 18. Payback; 19. The Good Old Days; 20. Radicalism for Beginners; 21. Come Together; 22. Passive Resistance; Part III: Return of the Riots; 23. Louis

24. Black Friday25. Frog Genocide; 26. Hail Mary; 27.Dreamer; 28. Gun Diplomacy; 29. Higher Consciousness; 30. Mistaken Identity; 31. Maxwell Street; 32. Game Over; 33. Lunchroom; 34. Arrest; 35. Détente; Epilogue: National Pastime; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61373-561-8

OCLC:

942611693