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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Glenview, Ill. :
Scott, Foresman and Company,
©1975.
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| 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.