intolerance

Francisco Jimenez, the son of Mexican immigrants, describes the challenges he faced as a student at Santa Clara University in California in the 1960s.

Presents brief narrative poems set in fifteenth-century Spain, when apprentice scribe Ramon witnesses the atrocities of the Inquisitions while Amir, born a Muslim and forced to give up his faith, is taken in by Ramon's family of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity.

Presents a first-person account of the terror, suffering, and tragedy of the Sudanese Civil War and how the author, John Bul Dau, eventually made his way out of the country to America.

Barbara Bick describes three of her visits to Afghanistan, which includes her first trip in in 1990 at the age of sixty-five, her return trip in 2001 where she was a guest at an Al Queda compound before the attacks on the United States, and again in 2003 for a women's constitutional convention.