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Framing the people : definitions and contestations. Values : invitations and exclusions. The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson et al. -- from Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter III from Letters from an American farmer / Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- from The Immigration Act of 1790 -- "Advice to such as would remove to America" / Benjamin Franklin -- Slave auction notice -- "The slave auction" / Frances E.W. Harper -- Independence Day speech / Frederick Douglass -- The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- from Indian Removal Act of 1837 -- 1805 oration of Red Jacket / Red Jacket -- from "The school days of an Indian girl" / Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-sa.
Framing the people : definitions and contestations. Immigrants and attitudes. "Anti-negro mob violence in the North, 1862-63" / James M. McPherson -- from Der Auswanderer nach America / G.F. Streckfuss -- "No Irish need apply" sign and song -- Songs from Gold Mountain -- from China men / Maxine Hong Kingston -- "In the land of the free" / Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far) -- from How the other half lives / Jacob Riis -- "A ghetto wedding" / Abraham Cahan -- from The American scene / Henry James -- from The soul of an immigrant / Constantine M. Panunzio -- from Lost in translation : life in a new language / Eva Hoffman -- "Indian movie, New Jersey" / Chitra Divakaruni.
Framing the people : definitions and contestations. Citizens by conquest. from The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- from Speech, January 4th, 1848 / John Caldwell Calhoun -- from The squatter and the don / Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- A corrido : "The ballad of Gregorio Cortez" -- "Immigrants" / Pat Mora -- Song lyric : "America" from West Side Story / Stephen Sondheim -- "Bitter sugar : why Puerto Ricans leave home" / Jésus Colón -- "To the person sitting in darkness" / Mark Twain -- "Immigration blues" / Bienvenido Nuqui Santos.
Actions of memory : making ethnic and racial identites. Memory and history. "Runagate, runagate" / Robert Hayden -- from The drinking gourd / Lorraine Hansberry -- "Of our spiritual strivings" / W.E.B. Dubois -- The dance and the railroad / David Henry Hwang -- "Incident" / Countee Cullen -- "Soul make a path through shouting" / Cyrus Cassells -- Saturday Evening Post cover : "the problem we all live with / Norman Rockwell -- Executive order 9066 -- "The legend of Miss Sasagawara" / Hisaye Yamamoto -- from Farewell to Manzanar / James Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- "Something whispered in the Shakuhachi" / Garrett Hongo -- "Poema para los californios muertos" / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Los vendidos / Luis Valdez.
Actions of memory : making ethnic and racial identites. Resentments and nostalgias. Aunt Jemima advertisement -- from Like one of the family / Alice Childress -- "Son in the afternoon" / John A Williams -- Cigar store Indian statue -- "Sure you can ask me a personal question" / Diane Burns -- "Where I come from is like this" / Paula Gunn Allen -- "The man to send rain clouds" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- "The odyssey of a wop" / John Fante -- "Whites without money" / Lloyd Van Brunt -- "The English lesson" / Nicholasa Mohr -- "Kicking the habit : / Lawson Fusao Inada -- "English con salsa" / Gina Valdés -- English-only campaign.
Actions of memory : making ethnic and racial identites. Transition and transcendence : connecting past and future. Painting : "Subway riders" / Ralph Fasanella -- "For dimes and quarters" / Monica Krawczyk -- from "Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity" / Adrienne Rich -- "To da-duh, in memoriam" / Paule Marshall -- "The bingo van" / Louise Erdrich -- "Remember" / Joy Harjo -- Foghorn / Hanay Geiogamah -- "Imagine the angels of bread" / Martin Espada -- "In search of Epifano" / Rudolfo Anaya.
Reconstitut(ion)ing the nation : problems and solutions. Desires and Identities. Minstrelsy music cover -- "Sympathy" / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- "What's in a name?" / Itabari Njeri -- "High on the hog" / Julia Fields -- An interview with Frank Chin / Studs Terkel -- "Japanese Hamlet" / Toshio Mori -- "Saying yes" / Diana Chang -- "Grandmother / Cheryl Savageau -- Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball -- "Report from El Dorado" / Michael Ventura -- "Dear Phil Donahue" / Lee Smith -- An interview with Peggy Terry / Studs Terkel -- "The unexamined" / Ross Chambers -- "Black Tuesday / May Swenson -- "A drug called tradition" / Sherman Alexie -- "A father" / Bharati Mukherjee -- "Legacy II" / Leroy Quintana.
Reconstitut(ion)ing the nation : problems and solutions. Mixed Relations. Antimiscegenation laws -- "Dry September" / William Faulkner -- "The exotic enemy" / Daniela Gioseffi -- "Nigger-reecan blues" / Willie Perdomo -- "Cross" / Langston Hughes -- "Secrets and anger" / David Mura -- "If I am too brown or too white for you" / Wendy Rose.
Reconstitut(ion)ing the nation : problems and solutions. Toward the multiculture. Painting : "Tropical daydream" / Adrian Wong Shue -- "Our America" / José Martí -- "Homesick" / Jessica Hagedorn -- "Can the United States assimilate the wave of new immigrants?" / Robert N. Hopkins -- "America : the multinational society" / Ishmael Reed -- "Guess who's coming to Seder" / Trey Ellis -- "Crossover king" / John Leguizamo -- "American" / Tato Laviera -- from "The heart of whiteness" / Arjun Appadurai.
Includes bibliographical references (page 529) and index.