| Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom (Immigrant Reform in America, People of Color, Migrants) Contributor(s): Lal, Prerna (Author), McLeod, Allegra (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1642501123 ISBN-13: 9781642501124 Publisher: Tma Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Emigration & Immigration - Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Self-esteem & Self-reliance - Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2019944135 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.1" (0.80 lbs) 318 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Far too often, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated, when we should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in our fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lal, Prerna: - Prerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney, based in the Bay Area, California. Lal is also a founder of DreamActivist, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration, racial justice, sexual orientation, and how these forces intersect. Lal is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School, and works as an immigration attorney.McLeod, Allegra: - Allegra M. McLeod received a J.D. from Yale Law School, Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University and B.A. with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College of the Claremont Consortium. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in political theory at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Georgetown, McLeod practiced immigration and criminal law at the California-Mexico border as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow and staff attorney with the ABA Immigration Justice Project, an organization she helped to create. She has taught political theory at Stanford University, served as a consulting attorney with the Stanford Immigrants' Rights and Criminal Defense Clinics, worked with the ACLU National Prison Project and clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Her publications appear in the Georgetown Law Journal, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Yale Law & Policy Review, Harvard Unbound, and American Criminal Law Review. |