Speaking for ourselves : American ethnic writing /

The second edition of "Speaking for Ourselves" continues the original purpose of bringing together writers of different ethnic backgrounds, representing the two-thirds of the American population that is not white Anglo-Saxon Protestant native-born of native parentage. The renaissance of et...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faderman, Lillian (Author)
Other Authors: Bradshaw, Barbara (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman and Company, ©1975.
Edition:Second edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Native American writers ; The Cheyenne experience / Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • A vision beyond time and place / M. Scott Momaday
  • Chee's daughter / Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller
  • Summer water and Shirley / Durango Mendoza
  • Jumping mouse / Hyemeyohsts Storm
  • Vision of a past warrior / Peter La Farge
  • West side of the valley / Wendy Rose
  • Ghost Dance songs ; The whole world is coming
  • The raven says
  • The four directions / Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell
  • Untitled / Alonzo Lopez
  • The parade / Liz Sohappy
  • Once again / Liz Sohappy
  • Relocation ; Missing that Indian name of Roy or Ray / Simon Ortiz
  • Traditional Native American songs ; Child's night song
  • Song of failure
  • Spring song
  • Glyph
  • May I walk
  • Grebes at sunset ; Hopi roadrunner, dancing, dancing / Wendy Rose
  • Direction ; I am crying from thirst ; I go forth to move about the Earth / Alonzo Lopez
  • Indian market / Liz Sohappy
  • Black American writers ; 19 necromancers from now [excerpt] / Ishmael Reed
  • The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright
  • Go tell it on the mountain [excerpt] / James Baldwin
  • Did you ever dream lucky? / Ralph Ellison
  • Let America be America again / Langston Hughes
  • At candle-lightin' time / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • O black and unknown bards / James Weldon Johnson
  • Yet I do marvel / Countee Cullen
  • Incident / Countee Cullen
  • If we must die / Claude McKay
  • The White House / Claude McKay
  • My people ; Madam's past history ; Madam and her Madam / Langston Hughes
  • Black bourgeoisie / Imamu Amira Baraka
  • Jonathan's song / Owen Dodson
  • Middle passage ; Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
  • Memorial wreath ; Booker T. and W. E. B. / Dudley Randall
  • Status symbol ; Vive noir! / Mari Evans
  • Nikki-Rosa ; Seduction ; Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni
  • Hard Rock returns to prison ; The warden said / Etheridge Knight
  • Gwendolyn Brooks ; black music/a beginning ; But he was cool / Don L. Lee
  • Hokku poems / Richard Wright
  • Sorrow is the only faithful one / Owen Dodson
  • Langston Hughes ; weaponed woman ; sick man looks at flowers ; a light and diplomatic bird / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Purlie victorious / Ossie Davis
  • Asian American writers ; Confessions of a number one son / Frank Chin
  • The widower / Ferris Takahashi
  • The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto
  • The eggs of the world ; The Seventh Street philosopher / Toshio Mori
  • Chinatown family [excerpt] / Lin Yutang
  • The day the dancers came / Bienvenido Santos
  • History of a moment / Carlos Bulosan
  • Nisei, Nisei! / Ferris Takahashi
  • Arrival at Boston / Chiang Yee
  • Garden of my childhood / Kuangchi C. Chang
  • Poem / Lloyd Tsugawa
  • Asian brother, Asian sister / Lawson Fusao Inada
  • On seeing my great-aunt in a funeral parlor ; Four views in praise of reality / Diana Chang
  • Retrospect ; Gift of quince / Toyo Suyemoto
  • Pauline ; 10/9 afternoon ; In the hardware store / Pam Koo
  • Five haiku / Shisei Tsuneishi
  • To ripen / Lloyd Tsugawa
  • Inviting a tiger ; Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant / José Garcia Villa
  • Hispanic American writers ; The art of the Chicano movement and the movement of Chicano art / Manuel J. Martinez
  • Conquistador / Prudencio de Pereda
  • The legend of Gregorio Cortez / Americo Paredes
  • Perla is a pig / Oscar Zeta Acosta
  • Damián Sánchez, G.I. / Emilio Díaz Valcárel
  • Alien turf / Piri Thomas
  • Aztec angel [excerpt] / Omar Salinas
  • Message to a dope fiend / Felipe Luciano
  • Energy ; The man who came to the last floor / Victor Hernandez Cruz
  • Jíbaro / Luis Lloréns Torres
  • Must be the season of the witch ; We've played cowboys / Alurista
  • "in Chihuahua, Villa was shooting traitors" ; in December's air / Leonard Adamé
  • Smoke ; Prayer / Josef Rodriguez
  • This day of quixotic expectation / Omar Salinas
  • The library / Felipe Luciano
  • Today is a day of great joy / Victor Hernandez Cruz
  • Los dos caras del patroncito / Luis Valdez
  • Jewish American writers ; Saul Bellow / Leslie Fiedler
  • The little shoemakers / Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • The first seven years / Bernard Malamud
  • The adventures of Augie March [excerpt] / Saul Bellow
  • Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth
  • The long-distance runner / Grace Paley
  • Miserere / William Pillin
  • Behold the sea [excerpt] / Aaron Kurtz
  • University ; The 151st psalm / Karl Shapiro
  • Letter to the front [excerpt] / Muriel Rukeyser
  • Illustrious ancestors / Denise Levertov
  • On the photograph of a man I never saw / Hyam Plutzik
  • Dark moon ; Old photographs / Rhoda Schwartz
  • I was my father / Jacob Sloan
  • Kaddish [excerpt] / Allen Ginsberg
  • Abraham ; The self unsatisfied runs everywhere / Delmore Schwartz
  • Argumentum ad hominem / Hyam Plutzik
  • Beast in view / Muriel Rukeyser
  • Somebody trying ; A hunger / Denise Levertov
  • Grand-mama / Rhoda Schwartz
  • White ethnic writers ; White ethnic / Michael Novak
  • Christ in concrete / Pietro di Donato
  • The wooing of Ariadne / Harry Mark Petrakis
  • After Pentecost [excerpt] / Richard Bankowsky
  • The oratory contest / James T. Farrell
  • Sweet promised land [excerpt] / Robert Laxalt
  • Italian to the moon over New York / Joe Papaleo
  • Birthplace revisited / Gregory Corso
  • The chance / Harold Bond
  • Things in common / May Swenson
  • Elegy ; Letter to mother / John Ciardi
  • Genealogy / Sharon Hucklenbroich
  • Uccello / Gregory Curso
  • Photograph of five ancestors / Virginia Tatarian
  • The magnolia ; Daffodils / May Swenson
  • Awakening / Sharon Hucklenbroich
  • Letter to an aunt / Harold Bond.