trates the trials and tribulations Charlayne Hunter-Gualt experienced throughout her life. This was clear to see by her being one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia. Her aspiration was to be journalists, and she achieved her dream by serving as a national correspondent for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) on the Mac Neil, Lehrer News Hour. This book serves as a reminder that if you listen to what people tell you what you can not do, you will never succeed in your future endeavors. Little, Benilde. 1996. Good Hair. New York: Simon & Schuster.The subject of this book is "marring well". It also exposes a race and class of the characters in order to reveal them in their most simple form. Through this process Little shows that these characters are human beings acting as human beings tend to act. Through these characters identity, infidelity, and race relations are explored. Little's ability to show a woman struggling to be who she is while trying to fit an image of who she should be is powerful. By the end of this book, Good Hair is more than a love story between man and woman.Liu, Eric. 1998. The Accidental Asian. New York: Random House.This is a book of a series of essays that answers the questions facing Asia Americans. The bottom line of the essays in this book is the question of assimilation related to Asian Americans. Liu asks questions such as: Is whiteness America's fundamental race problem? Are Asian Americans real New Jews? What might intermarriages mean for Asian Americans-and for the future race itself? He explores his identity as a second-generation Chinese American. He is a former speech writer for President Clinton, and now a law student at Harvard University. The Accidental Asian deals with the often overlooked struggles of Asian Americans faced with their identity in America.Parks. Gordon. 1992. The Learning Tree. Demco Media: London.This book points out some very powerfu...
