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Growing up Ethnic in America : : Contemporary Fiction About Learning to be American

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Performing: The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Looking for work / Gary Soto -- The best deal in America / Bebe Moore Campbell -- The day the Cisco Kid shot John Wayne / Nash Candelaria -- The new negro / Darryl Pinckney -- A half-breed's dream vacation / Tiffany Midge -- Americanism / Kathryn Nocerino -- Railroad standard time / Frank Chin.
Crossing: American history / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- Killing the bees / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Drowning / Mary Bucci Bush -- Magic / Liz Rosenberg -- The Cossacks of Connecticut / Daniel Asa Rose -- Mericans / Sandra Cisneros -- Negotiating: What means switch / Gish Jen -- Myrna and me / Laura Boss -- Dinner with father / Bruce A. Jacobs -- Brandy cake / Beena Kamlani -- Drowning kittens / Enid Dame -- Portrait of the lone survivor / Diane Glancy -- Holy Toledo / Joseph Geha -- Carlton Fredericks and my mother / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Honey boy / Afaa Michael Weaver.
Bridging: This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- From Recollections of my life as a woman / Diane di Prima -- Red velvet dress / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Grandpa's "Chicaudies" / Fred L. Gardaphe -- Thanksgiving in a monsoonless land / Roshni Rustomji -- The change in a good way / Simon J. Ortiz -- The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Talking to the dead / Sylvia A. Watanabe.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: 374 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 910

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140280634 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Gillan, Maria M.
Gillan, Jennifer.

SUBJECTS
American fiction -- Minority authors.
Minority youth -- Fiction.
Ethnic groups -- Fiction.
Acculturation -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Minorities -- Fiction.
American fiction -- 20th century.