ISBN:
9781566394383
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (255 p.)
Series Statement:
Critical Perspectives On The P
Parallel Title:
Print version Becoming American Becoming Ethnic
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Personal reflections on the challenges that face college students coming to understand their ethnicity in contemporary America
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Family Traditions; Virginia Correia, Life after Terceira; Tanya Mlodzinski, Coming to Terms with My Heritage; Sara Kindler, The Family History of a Fourth-Generation Pole; Michele Kitko, My Paternal Forebears; Rachel Koch, The Loss of My Family's Ethnic Ties and the Strengthening of Their American Identities; Karen A. Gryga, What's a Tyrolean? The Immigration of Mario Leonardi to America; Marc Turetzky, Turetzky Family Assimilation: From Grandparents to Father to Me
Description / Table of Contents:
Stephanie A. Courtney, Changing Worlds: The Immigration Experiences of My Paternal GrandparentsRaffi Ishkanian, Roots Paper; Bob Vaage, A Family History; Susan Carnicelli, My Austrian-Italian Ethnicity; Josephine Burgos, East Side Story: What "West Side Story" Left Out; Gloria Genel, Three Generations in America; LaToya Powell, Where I Stand and Why; Part II: Our Parents, Ourselves; Lynn Sugamura, A Challenge of Loyalty; Shana R. Rivas, A Bicultural Experience; Cecilia Pineda, My Family History; Melissa Algranati, Being an Other; Sang-Hoon Kim, Discovering My Ethnic Roots
Description / Table of Contents:
Peter Bosco, The Experiences of My Parents in Itay and AmericaLizette Aguilar, Getting to Know My Parents So That I May Know Who I Am; Ann Fenech, Finding Home; Soo Y. Kim, The Assimilation Problems of My Family in America; Part III: Ethnicity in Our Lives; Cathy Thompson, The Oreo Cookie: Black on the Outside, White on the Inside; Jaime Dominguez, Should I or Shouldn't I?; Catherine Tagudin, My Experience with Immigration/Assimilation in America; Anh-Dao Nguyen, Leaving Home; Lila Shah, Being Indian in America: My Ethnic Roots and Me; Vladimir Sinayuk, My Immigrant Experience
Description / Table of Contents:
Puwat Charukamnoetkanok, Triple Identity: My Experience as an Immigrant in AmericaRose Rameau, Two Poems; Afterword; Appendix: Sample Roots Paper Topic; Notes on Contributors;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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