Writing Styles of Alexie and Urrea

I feel like Alexie and Urrea have a lot in common but also a lot of differences and these show through their writing.
Alexie and Urrea both come from minority backgrounds, Alexie's being Native American and Urrea's being Native American and Spanish (among others), they both chose to project the experiences, histories, and ideas behind their backgrounds in the writings that we read in class. They both seem to hold to the fact that the minorities are mistreated and that your average white american does not only do nothing but does not fully understand the issues either. That is partly why I think that they cho0se to write; to get their ideas out for the public to read so that they will become more knowledgable about people and situations that are different from what the readers are used to. The difference between the two lyes in how they go about getting their ideas across to the audience.
They both have remarkable senses of humor despite the topics that they write about which tend to be serious and at times tragic and/or depressing. The humor is a nice touch to both writings because it lessens the gravity of the writing so that it is easier to take in the broader ideas, almost like a breath of fresh air during a time when you are investigating a rancid raided nest. Alexie's style seems at first to be the more inviting of the two writers. He invites you in with his first poem and throughout his book adds light and easy humor that makes nearly anyone laugh. And yet at the same time there is Urrea who tells it like it is but throws in some amusing events to lighten the stories (even when some of the humor is dark). In the end I find Urrea to be the more inviting one because he doesn't seem to pass a lot of judgments on the people that he is writing about regardless of what their ancestors did; he tells it how it is and allows the reader to draw their own conclusions. Everything that he writes about seems realistic because it is usually based on a true story (apart from the magical realism in the first story). This is more inviting than Alexie's writing because Alexie will not forgive the "white man." The majority of his readers follow his entire story and begin to understand why he cares so much about the wrongs that were done in the past and the ones that continue on, yet when they realize what they have been doing wrong and apologize for it they will not be forgiven. No matter what, even when they had nothing to do with any of the racist events, just the fact that their ancestors were involved is enough to condemn them. This in comparison to Urrea who believes in Grace and how God shows through grace in all of his stories. His stories to me are more welcoming because they want to teach and grow the reader with stories of grace rather than stories of seemingly insurmountable walls of bitterness and hurt.
Both writers obviously have great merit and I enjoyed reading both immensly don't get me wrong, I just find Urrea to be more positive than Alexie (just in concern with the readings that we did for class, not in general) when it comes to minority-white relations in the future and reactions to the material that they have written.