Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-286) and index.
Contents
On the Fourth of July in Sitka / Ishmael Reed -- Introduction : the invention of ethnicity / Werner Sollors -- An American writer / Richard Rodriguez -- A plea for fictional histories and old-time 'Jewesses' / Alide Cagidemetrio -- Ethnicity as festive culture : nineteenth-century German Americans on parade / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Defining the race 1890-1930 / Judith Stein -- Anzia Yezierska and the making of an ethnic American self / Mary V. Dearborn -- Deviant girls and dissatisfied women : a sociologist's tale / Carla Cappetti -- Ethnic trilogies : a genealogical and generational poetics / William Boelhower -- Blood in the marketplace : the business of family in the Godfather narratives / Thomas J. Ferraro -- Comping for Count Basie / Albert Murray -- 'Is ethnicity obsolete?' / Ishmael Reed [and others].
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