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Title:

Growing up ethnic in America : contemporary fiction about learning to be American / edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xvii, 374 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--Minority authors.
American fiction--20th century.
Minority youth--Fiction.
Ethnic groups--Fiction.
Acculturation--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Minorities--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Gillan, Maria M.
Gillan, Jennifer.

Notes:

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 / 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. Gardaph\ACe -- Thanksgiving in a monsoonless land / Roshni Rustomji -- To change in a good way / Simon J. Ortiz -- The monks / Helena Mar\ACia Viramontes -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe.

ISBN:

9780140280630
0140280634

LCCN:

99025762

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

LTAX046 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Centerville (Centerville)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

POSX851 -- Ballard Community High School (Huxley)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

RSSX851 -- Roland-Story High School Media Center (Story City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

41SX706 -- West Liberty High School Library (West Liberty)