Multicultural America.
Series: A Nextext anthology
Publisher: Nextext; Mcdougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors.; Minorities -- United States -- Literary collections.; American literature -- Textbooks.; Children's literature, American.; American literature -- Minority authors -- Collections.
Genres: Literary collections.; Textbooks.; Collections.
Notes: Includes index.
"Classic and contemporary selections offer various perspectives on universal issues and experiences."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Homelands: Home / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni ; Ellis Island / Joseph Bruchac ; Time we climbed Snake Mountain / Leslie Marmon Silko ; Other pioneers / Roberto Félix Salazar ; Gold / Pat Mora ; Tears of autumn / Yoshiko Uchida ; Picture bride / Cathy Song ; The tropics in New York / Claude McKay ; Exile / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; Tsali of the Cherokees / Norah Roper, as told to Alice Marriott ; The circuit / Francisco Jiménez ; The war of the wall / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Traditions: The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes ; Ancestors / Dudley Randall ; High Horse's courting / Black Elk and John Neihardt ; María Sabida / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; Miss Butterfly / Toshio Mori ; Legacies / Nikki Giovanni ; Lineage / Margaret Walker ; The medicine bag / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve ; Koreans have a reason not to smile / K.Connie Kang; title: Growing up: The secret lion / Alberto Alvaro Rios ; Drenched in light / Zora Neale Hurston ; Flash cards / Rita Dove ; Mother to son / Langston Hughes ; At last I kill a buffalo / Luther Standing Bear ; The journey / Duane BigEagle ; Epiphany, the third gift / Lucha Corpi ; Hollywood and the pits / Cherylene Lee ; Amigo brothers / Piri Thomas ; The "Black Table" is still there / Lawrence Otis Graham; title: Families: Mi familia / Carmen Tafolla ; My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta ; My mother juggling bean bags / James Mitsui ; Those winter sundays / Robert Hayden ; My father's songs / Simon Ortiz ; Bowling to find a lost father / Mee Her ; Eva and Daniel / Tomás Rivera ; Sweet potato pie / Eugenia Collier ; Last night / Fan Myenne Ng ; In a neighborhood in Los Angeles / Francisco X. Alarcon ; Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni; title: Between cultures: On being Asian American / Lawson Fusao Inada ; Saying yes / Diana Chang ; The struggle to be an All-American girl / Elizabeth Wong ; Grandma's primo / Leroy V. Quintana ; A daughter of the samurai / Etsu Sugimoto ; Like Mexicans / Gary Soto ; Geraldine Moore the poet / Toni Cade Bambara ; Theme for English B / Langston Hughes ; Immigrants / Pat Mora ; Refugee ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes ; Men on the moon / Simon Ortiz; title: Struggles: I will fight no more forever / Chief Joseph ; If we must die / Claude McKay ; Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad / Ann Petry ; The ballad of Gregorio Cortez / anonymous ; I learned to sew / Mitsuye Yamada ; Camp Harmony / Monica Sone ; The noble experiment / Jackie Robinson ; Rosa Parks / Rita Dove ; I was born at the wrong time / Angela Shelf Medearis.