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.
Puerto Ricans : The view from the mainland -- From The Foraker Act -- Kipling and I / Jesús Colón -- Puerto Rican paradise / Piri Thomas -- The English lesson / Nicholasa Mohr -- From The line of the sun / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Mrs. Baez serves coffee on the third floor / Martin Espada -- No to Puerto Rican statehood / Linda Chavez -- Puerto Rico, U.S.A. / Rosario Ferre -- Japanese Americans : In camp, in community -- Japanese relocation order -- Pearl harbor echoes in Seattle / Monica Sone -- From No-no boy / John Okada -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Concentration constellation / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Kubota / Garrett Hongo -- Making amends / Dick Thornburgh -- Uncovering internment papers / Bob Pool -- Roots / Ronald Takaki -- Chicanos : Negotiating political and cultural boundaries -- From The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- The organizer's tale / César Chávez -- Christmas Eve / La Noche Buena / Tómas Rivera -- Elena / Pat Mora -- From Migrant souls / Arturo Islas -- Woman hollering creek / Sandra Cisneros -- From The memories of Ana Calderón / Graciela Limón -- From Border correspondent / Ruben Salazar -- Reinventing the border / Héctor Calderón -- Go north, young man / Richard Rodriguez -- It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world / Al Martinez -- The new immigrants : Reviving, challenging, and refashioning the American dream -- From Immigration and nationality act of 1980 -- My education / Carlos Bulosan -- Visitors, 1965 / Oscar Hijuelos -- The hardships of escape for Vietnamese women / Van B. Luu -- Sumpul / José Alejandro Romero -- Visitors / Bharati Mukherjee -- Easter : Wahiawa, 1959 / Cathy Song -- White coals ; Broken clock ; Speaking Arabic / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Border crossing / Peter H. Schuck.
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