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I feel I struggled to connect to this book a little bit more than while reading The New Jim Crow and I feel that is simply due to a lack of knowledge surrounding immigration. In schools growing up we learn all about slavery and the mistreatment of blacks, so I have prior education that helps me to connect to readings and stories about that. I feel we should have more education about immigration and its history since it is something that affects a good amount of our population. I feel that kind of prior education would have allowed me to connect to the book more and would have gave me more insight into some of these topics. I feel like books like ¡Presente! would be so valuable if we had high school students maybe read it at least once before
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