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Book:Name: Guadalupe Garcia McCall - All the Stars Denied (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 3.57 MB
Description:Title: All the Stars Denied
Author: Guadalupe García McCall
Language: English
Year: 1996
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN: 9780451455161
Total pages: 300 str.
Download from RapidGatorIn a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Pura Belpré Award Winner Guadalupe Garcia McCall tackles the hidden history of the United States and its first mass deportation that swept up hundreds of thousands of Mexican American citizens during the Great Depression.In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming "No Dogs or Mexicans" and "No Mexicans Allowed." When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of "repatriation" efforts to send Mexicans "back to Mexico" - whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped across the border and separated from half her family, Estrella must figure out a way to survive and care for her mother and baby brother. How can she reunite...
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