Becoming American Becoming Ethnic

Name: Becoming American Becoming Ethnic
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ISBN: 9781566394390

ISBN-10: 1566394392

ISBN-13: 9781566394390

Edition: 1996

Authors: Thomas Dublin

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More than at any time since the 1920's the issues of immigration and ethnicity have become central to discussions of American society and identity. Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic addresses this contemporary debate, bringing together essays written over the past eighteen years by college students exploring their ethnic roots-from the experiences of their forbears to the place of ethnicity in their lives.The students range from descendants of Europeans whose families immigrated several generations ago to Asian and Latin American immigrants of more recent decades to African-Americans and Hispanics-some have more than one ethnic heritage to grapple with, while others have migrated from one…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Life after Terceira



Coming to Terms with My Heritage



The Family History of a Fourth-Generation Pole



My Paternal Forebears



The Loss of My Family's Ethnic Ties and the Strengthening of Their American Identities



What's a Tyrolean? The Immigration of Mario Leonardi to America



Turetzky Family Assimilation: From Grandparents to Father to Me



Changing Worlds: The Immigration Experiences of My Paternal Grandparents



Roots Paper



A Family History



My Austrian-Italian Ethnicity



East Side Story: What West Side Story Left Out



Three Generations in America



Where I Stand and Why



A Challenge of Loyalty



A Bicultural Experience



My Family History



Being an Other



Discovering My Ethnic Roots



The Experiences of My Parents in Italy and America



Getting to Know My Parents So That I May Know Who I Am



Finding Home



The Assimilation Problems of My Family in America



The Oreo Cookie: Black on the Outside, White on the Inside



Should I or Shouldn't I?



My Experience with Immigration/Assimilation in America



Leaving Home



Being Indian in America: My Ethnic Roots and Me



My Immigrant Experience



Triple Identity: My Experience as an Immigrant in America



Two Poems



Afterword


Appendix: Sample Roots Paper Topic


Notes on Contributors