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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Concept of This Book | |
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| Framing the People: Definitions and Contestations | |
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| Introduction to Part I | |
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| Values: Invitations and Exclusions | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| from Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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| Letter III from Letters from an American Farmer | |
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| from The Immigration Act of 1790 | |
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| "Advice to Such As Would Remove to America" | |
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| Slave Auction Notice | |
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| "The Slave Auction" | |
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| Independence Day Speech | |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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| from Indian Removal Act of 1837 | |
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| 1805 Oration of Red Jacket | |
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| from "The School Days of an Indian Girl" | |
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| Immigrants and Attitudes | |
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| "Anti-Negro Mob Violence in the North, 1862-63" | |
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| from Der Auswanderer Nach America | |
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| "No Irish Need Apply" Sign and Song | |
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| Songs from Gold Mountain | |
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| from China Men | |
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| "In the Land of the Free" | |
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| from How the Other Half Lives | |
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| "A Ghetto Wedding" | |
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| from The American Scene | |
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| from The Soul of an Immigrant | |
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| from Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language | |
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| "Indian Movie, New Jersey" | |
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| Citizens by Conquest | |
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| from The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
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| from Speech, January 4th, 1848 | |
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| from The Squatter and the Don | |
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| A Corrido: "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" | |
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| "Immigrants" | |
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| Song Lyric: "America" from West Side Story | |
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| "Bitter Sugar: Why Puerto Ricans Leave Home" | |
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| "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" | |
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| "Immigration Blues" | |
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| Actions of Memory: Making Ethnic and Racial Identities | |
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| Introduction to Part II | |
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| Memory and History | |
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| "Runagate, Runagate" | |
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| from The Drinking Gourd | |
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| "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" | |
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| The Dance and the Railroad | |
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| "Incident" | |
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| Civil Rights Photography | |
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| "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting" | |
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| Saturday Evening Post cover: "The Problem We All Live With" | |
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| Executive Order 9066 | |
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| "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara" | |
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| from Farewell to Manzanar | |
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| "Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi" | |
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| "Poema para los Californios Muertos" | |
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| Los Vendidos | |
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| Resentments and Nostalgias | |
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| Aunt Jemima Advertisement | |
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| from Like One of the Family | |
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| "Son in the Afternoon" | |
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| Cigar Store Indian Statue | |
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| "Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question" | |
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| "Where I Come From Is Like This" | |
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| "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" | |
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| "The Odyssey of a Wop" | |
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| "Whites Without Money" | |
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| "The English Lesson" | |
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| "Kicking the Habit" | |
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| "English con Salsa" | |
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| English-Only Campaign | |
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| Transition and Transcendence: Connecting Past and Future | |
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| Painting: "Subway Riders" | |
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| "For Dimes and Quarters" | |
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| from "Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity" | |
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| "To Da-duh, In Memoriam" | |
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| "The Bingo Van" | |
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| "Remember" | |
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| Foghorn | |
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| "Imagine the Angels of Bread" | |
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| "In Search of Epifano" | |
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| Reconstitut(ion)ing the Nation: Problems and Solutions | |
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| Introduction to Part III | |
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| Desires and Identities | |
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| Minstrelsy Music Cover | |
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| "Sympathy" | |
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| "What's in a Name?" | |
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| "High on the Hog" | |
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| An Interview with Frank Chin | |
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| "Japanese Hamlet" | |
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| "Saying Yes" | |
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| "Grandmother" | |
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| Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball | |
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| "Report from El Dorado" | |
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| "Dear Phil Donahue" | |
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| An Interview with Peggy Terry | |
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| "The Unexamined" | |
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| "Black Tuesday" | |
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| "A Drug Called Tradition" | |
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| "A Father" | |
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| "Legacy II" | |
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| Mixed Relations | |
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| Antimiscegenation Laws | |
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| "Dry September" | |
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| "The Exotic Enemy" | |
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| "Nigger-Reecan Blues" | |
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| "Cross" | |
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| "Secrets and Anger" | |
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| "If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You" | |
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| Toward the Multiculture | |
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| Painting: "Tropical Daydream" | |
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| "Our America" | |
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| "Homesick" | |
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| "Can the United States Assimilate the Wave of New Immigrants?" | |
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| "America: The Multinational Society" | |
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| "Guess Who's Coming to Seder" | |
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| "Crossover King" | |
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| "AmeRican" | |
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| from "The Heart of Whiteness" | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Writing about Literature and Culture | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |