| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 236 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Doing archaeology in my America / Nina Barragan -- Turbulent times / Lilianet Brintrup -- Secret Latina at large / Veronica Chambers -- Rituals: a prayer, a candle, and a notebook / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Aha! / Edwidge Danticat -- Coming home / Gabrielle Donnelly -- Embracing the alien / Lynn Freed -- The remembering / Akuyoe Graham -- The country of childhood / Lucy Grealy -- A road still becoming / Suheir Hammad -- Code switching / Ginu Kamani -- My new world journey / Nola Kambanda -- Beyond boundaries / Helen Kim -- Disassembling Helie / Helie Lee -- Becoming midwestern / Kyoko Mori -- Recalling a child of October / Irina Reyn -- On becoming / Nelly Rosario -- Now is the time to try something- but have I got nine lives? / Ute Margaret Saine -- Whispered histories / Rosanne Katon-Walden -- Reluctant citizen / Annette Gallagher Weisman -- Unbecoming American / Mitsuye Yamada -- The language of dreams / Belle Yang -- All my relations / Joyce Zonana. |
| Summary |
Modern accounts of immigration from first generation immigrant women whose essays address such issues as identity, ethnicity, race and how the self begins to take on and absorb the label "American." Contributors come from the following countries: Argentina, Chile, Panama, Puerto Rico, Haiti, England, South Africa, Ghana, Ireland, Jordan/Palestine, India, Burundi/Rwanda, Korea, Japan, Russia, Dominican Republic, Germany, Jamaica, Ireland, China and Egypt. |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
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Acculturation -- United States.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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| Added Author |
Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama.
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| ISBN |
078686589X hardcover |
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