By Deborah J. Burris-Kitchen Ph.D.

the writer of this memoir, that's additionally an insightful critique of American
society is a tutorial sociologist who care and writes in regards to the plight of the operating classification, the
minorities, the deprived, and different who are suffering from prejudice in our society. She writes
from the vantage aspect of 1 who has suffered from bias, for she has had, all her existence, had to
fight the stigma and drawback of being brief. status 4 toes, 9 inches, she has been
patronized, missed, rejected, and underestimated continually. She speaks out for short
people, difficult equivalent appreciate. within the technique she tells a poignant existence tale and ends by
expanding her call for for reasonable remedy for all of the deprived in our society.

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