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Literature, race, and ethnicity : contesting American identities /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Skerrett, Joseph T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Longman, [2002]
Series:Longman literature and culture series.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations > Sources.
United States > Ethnic relations > Sources.
Ethnicity > United States > History > Sources.
Cultural pluralism > United States > History > Sources.
United States > Race relations > Literary collections.
United States > Ethnic relations > Literary collections.
Ethnicity > United States > Literary collections.
Cultural pluralism > United States > Literary collections.
American literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.