Title Becoming American : personal essays by first generation immigrant women / edited and with an introduction by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.

Publication Info.	New York : Hyperion, [2000]
	©2000

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E184.A1 B288 2000	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xviii, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Contents	Doing archaeology in my America / Nina Barragan -- Turbulent times / Lilianet Brintrup -- Secret Latina at large / Veronica Chambers -- Rituals: a prayer, a candle, and a notebook / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Aha! / Edwidge Danticat -- Coming home / Gabrielle Donnelly -- Embracing the alien / Lynn Freed -- The remembering / Akuyoe Graham -- The country of childhood / Lucy Grealy -- A road still becoming / Suheir Hammad -- Code switching / Ginu Kamani -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Beyond boundaries / Helen Kim -- Disassembling Helie / Helie Lee -- Becoming midwestern / Kyoko Mori -- Recalling a child of October / Irina Reyn -- On becoming / Nelly Rosario -- Now is the time to try something- but have I got nine lives? / Ute Margaret Saine -- Whispered histories / Rosanne Katon-Walden -- Reluctant citizen / Annette Gallagher Weisman -- Unbecoming American / Mitsuye Yamada -- The language of dreams / Belle Yang -- All my relations / Joyce Zonana.
Subject	Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
	Women immigrants.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	United States -- Emigration and immigration.
	Emigration and immigration.
	Acculturation -- United States.
	Acculturation.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Added Author	Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama.
ISBN	078686589X