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Shawn Shiflett

Shawn Shiflett is an associate professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of Hey Liberal! and Hidden Place, which was included in Library Journal's 2004 "Summer Highs, Fall Firsts" list of "most successful debuts."
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Hey, Liberal!
Hey, Liberal! (4 Formats) ›
By Shawn Shiflett
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Published Sep 2016

In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, Simon Fleming, the white son of an activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged to carry out the family’s commitment to school integration. He is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simon’s quest for survival introduces him to Clyde, a gangbanger turned political militant; Louis, a brilliant, self-destructive boy; Clark, a racist police officer who vies for allegiance in return for protection; John, a communist teacher who teaches Simon as much about politics as about biology; and Dia, the object of his affections. Hey, Liberal! exposes an out-of-touch education system and the universality of racial violence amidst a nation moving, inch by hard-fought inch, toward a more culturally diverse future.