American mosaic : multicultural readings in context / Barbara Roche Rico, Sandra Mano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Points of entry, points of departure -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Ellis Island / Joseph Bruchac -- From The epic of America / James Truslow Adams -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Battling illegitimacy: some words against the darkness / Greg Sarris -- From Lost in translation / Eva Hoffman -- Immigrants and family values / Francis Fukuyama -- From Conclusion: for multiculturalism / Arnold Krupat -- American Indians: Reclaiming cultural heritage -- From The Indian removal act -- From An Indian's view of Indian affairs / Chief Joseph -- Train time / D'arcy McNickle -- Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Plea to those who matter / James Welch -- From Love medicine / Louise Erdrich -- Pocahontas to her English husband, John Rolfe / Paula Gunn Allen -- The language we know / Simon J. Ortiz -- A status higher than states / Vine Deloria Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle -- Crossings / Linda Hogan -- The meaning of the hunt / Nicole Brodeur -- Concerning a whale / Jerry Large -- Early immigrants: In search of the land of milk and honey -- The bill of rights -- In the American storm / Constantine Panunzio -- Facing the great desolation / Ole Edvart R�olvaag -- The fat of the land / Anzia Yezierska -- From I speak my own piece / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Beyond the stereotype: a new look at the immigrant woman, 1880-1924 / Maxine S. Seller -- Genesis of the tenement / Jacob Riis -- Images from the other half / James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle -- Shirt / Robert Pinsky -- Early Chinese Americans: The lure of the gold mountain -- From The Chinese exclusion act -- From The gold mountain poems -- In the land of the free / Sui Sin Far -- From Homebase / Shawn Wong -- The grandfather of the Sierra Nevada mountains / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The world of our grandmothers / Connie Young Yu -- Lindo Jong: double face / Amy Tan -- Creating one's self: the Eaton sisters / Amy Ling -- African Americans: The migration north and the journey toward civil rights -- From The constituti

Puerto Ricans: The view from the mainland -- From The Foraker Act -- Kipling and I / Jes�us Col�on -- Puerto Rican paradise / Piri Thomas -- The English lesson / Nicholasa Mohr -- From The line of the sun / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Mrs. Baez serves coffee on the third floor / Martin Espada -- No to Puerto Rican statehood / Linda Chavez -- Puerto Rico, U.S.A. / Rosario Ferre -- Japanese Americans: In camp, in community -- Japanese relocation order -- Pearl harbor echoes in Seattle / Monica Sone -- From No-no boy / John Okada -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Concentration constellation / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Kubota / Garrett Hongo -- Making amends / Dick Thornburgh -- Uncovering internment papers / Bob Pool -- Roots / Ronald Takaki -- Chicanos: Negotiating political and cultural boundaries -- From The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- The organizer's tale / C�esar Ch�avez -- Christmas Eve / La Noche Buena / T�omas Rivera -- Elena / Pat Mora -- From Migrant souls / Arturo Islas -- Woman hollering creek / Sandra Cisneros -- From The memories of Ana Calder�on / Graciela Lim�on -- From Border correspondent / Ruben Salazar -- Reinventing the border / H�ector Calder�on -- Go north, young man / Richard Rodriguez -- It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world / Al Martinez -- The new immigrants: Reviving, challenging, and refashioning the American dream -- From Immigration and nationality act of 1980 -- My education / Carlos Bulosan -- Visitors, 1965 / Oscar Hijuelos -- The hardships of escape for Vietnamese women / Van B. Luu -- Sumpul / Jos�e Alejandro Romero -- Visitors / Bharati Mukherjee -- Easter: Wahiawa, 1959 / Cathy Song -- White coals ; Broken clock ; Speaking Arabic / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Border crossing / Peter H. Schuck.

Using a chronological framework, American Mosaic: Multicultural Readings in Context celebrates diversity by presenting the writings of many ethnic groups at a perticular generative period in their histories.