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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 | |