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Sueños Americanos Book Review In Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities, Julio Cammarota studies Latina/o youth who live in El Pueblo, and talks about how Proposition 187, the anti-immigrant law, is affecting Latina/o youth in California (Cammarota, 2008, p. 3). In this book review, I will write about the two main points the author is trying to get across. The two main points I will be writing about are how Proposition 187 is affecting the Latina/o community, and about how Latina/o youth are copping in the El Pueblo barrio. Afterward I write about the two main points the author is trying to get across, I will write a brief description of the author and write about the author’s strengths and weaknesses.
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12). Then Cammarota retold Chavez’s story in his own words and made it come to life. That is why I believe that one of Cammarota’s biggest strengths in this book was retelling other people’s experiences. After reading Sueños Americanos, I believe that Julio Cammarota is a great writer, who taught me something worthwhile. That being said, I could not find a weakness in his writing without being nitpicky. I thought he was an amazing writer, whose ideas were well developed and organized. Therefore, I do not believe he had any weakness in his writing. All in all, Julio Cammarota was a great man, who was not afraid to question the law. He took a stand and wrote Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities, which was about how the Latina/o community delt with overwhelming racism and discrimination in California. Sueños Americanos not only gave a voice to the Latina/o community, but also encouraged more Latinas/os to go to school and get an education. Sueños Americanos is a wonderful book that tells how it is really like growing up in America being

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