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The lives of a Mexican-American family living in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley during the turbulent 1960’s and 1970’s are the focus of Coconut: Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside. Despite living a middle class life, 'The Rodrigos'have to endure terms like 'wetback' and 'beaner'- even though they don’t speak Spanish. To top it off, their daughter is a Chicano rights activist who is mixing with the wrong group of militants; their sister-in-law suffers at the hands of an abusivehusband; and their precocious son is gifted and headed for the Ivy League, only his parents don’t have a clue what 'gifted' means and are afraid of him deserting 'la familia.' Sure, he could be one of the 8% of Latinos to graduate from collegeduring that time - if racism, marginalization and his parents don’t extinguish his dream first.'Coconut' takes us back to a time when everything was 'groovy,' and bell bottoms, brown power and disco collided with Civil Rights, earthquakes and the quest to be accepted as an American.If you’ve ever been called a 'coconut,' 'banana' or 'Oreo,' this novel will leave you laughing, crying and better understanding what racism and life were like for people of color then - and why we are who we are today.
