| Description |
xvii, 374 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The writer in the family / E. L. Doctorow -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Looking for work / Gary Soto -- The best deal in America / Bebe Moore Cambell -- The day the Cisco Kid shot John Wayne / Nash Candelaria -- The new negro / Darryl Pinckney -- A half-breed's dream vacation / Tiffany Midge -- Americanism / Kathryn Nocerino -- Railroad standard time / Frank Chin -- American history / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- From The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Killing the bees / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Drowning / Mary Bucci Bush -- Magic / Liz Rosenberg -- The cossacks of Connecticut / Daniel Asa Rose -- Mericans / Sandra Cisneros -- What means switch / Gish Jen -- Myrna and me / Laura Boss -- Dinner with father / Bruce A. Jacobs -- Brandy cafe / Beena Kamlani -- Drowning kittens / Enid Dame -- Portrait of the lone survivor / Diane Glancy -- Holy Toledo / Joseph Geha -- Carlton Fredericks and my mother / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Honey boy / Afaa Michael Weaver -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- From Recollections of my life as a woman / Diane de Prima -- Red velvet dress / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Grandpa's "Chicaudies" / Fred L. Gardaphe -- Thanksgiving in a monsoonless land / Roshni Rustomji -- To change in a good way / Simon J. Ortiz -- The monks / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe. |
| Summary |
An anthology on ethnics divided into several sections. One comprises stories on ethnics absorbed into the mainstream of American society, a second is on people who straddle the divide, while a third is on people attempting to reconnect with the Old Country. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Minority authors.
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American fiction -- Minority authors. |
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American fiction. |
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Minority youth -- Fiction.
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Minority youth. |
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Acculturation -- Fiction.
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Acculturation. |
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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Immigrants. |
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Minorities -- Fiction.
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Minorities. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Gillan, Maria M.
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Gillan, Jennifer.
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| ISBN |
0140280634 |
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