American mosaic : multicultural readings in context

Rico, Barbara Roche. (Added Author). Mano, Sandra. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0395886619
ISBN: 9780395886618
Physical Description: print
xv, 718 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Points of entry, points of departure -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Ellis Island / Joseph Bruchac -- From The epic of America / James Truslow Adams -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Battling illegitimacy : some words against the darkness / Greg Sarris -- From Lost in translation / Eva Hoffman -- Immigrants and family values / Francis Fukuyama -- From Conclusion : for multiculturalism / Arnold Krupat -- American Indians : Reclaiming cultural heritage -- From The Indian removal act -- From An Indian's view of Indian affairs / Chief Joseph -- Train time / D'arcy McNickle -- Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Plea to those who matter / James Welch -- From Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Pocahontas to her English husband, John Rolfe / Paula Gunn Allen -- The language we know / Simon J. Ortiz -- A status higher than states / Vine Deloria Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle -- Crossings / Linda Hogan -- The meaning of the hunt / Nicole Brodeur -- Concerning a whale / Jerry Large -- Early immigrants : In search of the land of milk and honey -- The bill of rights -- In the American storm / Constantine Panunzio -- Facing the great desolation / Ole Edvart Rölvaag -- The fat of the land / Anzia Yezierska -- From I speak my own piece / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Beyond the stereotype : a new look at the immigrant woman, 1880-1924 / Maxine S. Seller -- Genesis of the tenement / Jacob Riis -- Images from the other half / James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle -- Shirt / Robert Pinsky -- Early Chinese Americans : The lure of the gold mountain -- From The Chinese exclusion act -- From The gold mountain poems -- In the land of the free / Sui Sin Far -- From Homebase / Shawn Wong -- The grandfather of the Sierra Nevada mountains / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The world of our grandmothers / Connie Young Yu -- Lindo Jong : double face / Amy Tan -- Creating one's self : the Eaton sisters / Amy Ling -- African Americans : The migration north and the journey toward civil rights -- From The constitution of South Carolina -- From Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes -- From The blacker the berry / Wallace Thurman -- From Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- From A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines -- The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Tomorrow is for our martyrs / James Farmer -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- The darkened eye restored / Mary Helen Washington.