Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers
Grade 6 Up-For two-and-a-half years, Budhos interviewed immigrant teenagers from around the country: the New York metropolitan area; Los Angeles; Madison, WI; and Cambridge, MA. The resulting book contains 14 in-depth profiles of older teens, most accompanied by a photograph, and 6 shorter pieces, told solely in the immigrants' own words. They are randomly arranged, except for grouping together the stories of three Muslim girls. Six of the interviewees are from Asia; the rest are from Europe, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, and Africa. These moving accounts tell of the young people's changing relationships within their own families and ethnic communities, as well as their struggles and adjustments with peer groups at school and individuals in the neighborhoods. They also provide insight into American teenage culture. The author, herself the daughter of an immigrant father from British Guiana, speaks from personal experience, but her comments in the longer profiles are sometimes intrusive. Nonetheless, as the U.S. copes with its "largest immigrant teenage population ever," this is a valuable book, particularly in communities with large numbers of new arrivals.Diane S. Marton, Arlington County Library, VACopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.