Growing up ethnic in America
Growing up ethnic in America: contemporary fiction about learning to be American
edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
ISBN: 0140280634
DDC: 813.54080920693
LCC: PS647
Notes:
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 /
Diaine 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. GardaphACe -- Thanksgiving in a
monsoonless land / Roshni Rustomji -- To change in a good way / Simon
J. Ortiz -- The monks / Helena MarACia Viramontes-- Talking to the
dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe.
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