Unsung America

<h2><b>Immigration Stories-A Fight for Justice and Freedom</b></h2><p><b>Discover both triumphant and painful real life tales of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in the fight for fundamental human rights.</b></p><p><b>Positive and heroic stories.</b> Far too often immigrants are demonized and scapegoated when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries.</p><p><b>Unsung heroes.</b> Learn about the trials and triumphs of ordinary people fighting for citizenship as immigrants in a new land. 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.</p><p><b><em>Unsung America</em> may change the way you view immigrants and refugees.</b> Prerna Lal who penned <em>Unsung America</em> 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.</p><p><b>In this celebratory book discover:</b></p><ul><li>Powerful theories of social change and how what seems radical in one era can be normalized in the next</li><li>How the fight for citizenship is interconnected and interrelated to other struggles such as the civil rights movement and the LGBT movement</li><li>Stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things and how you too can be a force for good in the world</li></ul><p></p><p><b>If you liked <em>The Book of Awesome Women </em>by Becca Anderson <em>Dear America </em>by Jose Antonio Vargas or <em>American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures</em> by America Ferrara you'll love <em>Unsung America</em>.</b></p>