Pride and poverty : an Irish integrity / William Alfred -- Choosing a dream : Italians in Hell's Kitchen / Mario Puzo -- Pioneers to eternity : Norwegians on the Prairie / Eugene Boe -- Halfway to Dick and Jane : a Puerto Rican pilgrimage / Jack Agueros -- Puritans from the Orient : a Chinese evolution / Jade Snow Wong -- Time and tide : roots of Black awareness / John A. Williams -- America, the thief : a Jewish search for freedom / Harry Roskolenko -- The center of impermanence : New York in the eyes of an Englishman / Alan Pryce-Jones -- Biblical heirs and modern evils : a Polish poet in California / Czeslaw Milosz.
Summary
Personal narratives by nine American writers who are either immigrants themselves or closely descended from immigrants.
