New to North America : Writing by U. S.

New to North America is a collection of fiction, essays, poetry and memoir that documents the experiences and contributions of three critical generations from immigrant to second generation American. While the complex subject of immigration has been oversimplified by national headlines, the voices of immigrants have often been excluded from the debate. Our authors examine issues of identity, memory, assimilation, language, acceptance, struggle and the presence of the "American Dream." Used in history, anthrology, ethnic studies, geography and college composition classes, this text continues to voice relevant cultural themes.

The other side	p. 19
The old people and the old story	p. 22
Nameless place	p. 27
Will the real island please stand up	p. 30
Attack at dawn	p. 31
The occupied zone	p. 33
I remember Haifa being lovely but	p. 34
He read he was	p. 36
Knowing the teacher	p. 37
Passages	p. 39
In the land of the free	p. 44
When it happens it seems altogether impossible	p. 54
On the mountain, the cathedral and the fast food culture	p. 56
The rearview mirror	p. 61
A room with a view	p. 67
To be viet kieu is to be like Santa Claus	p. 73
Immigrant dreams, survival, reflection	p. 77
Butterscotch marble ice cream	p. 80
Goddess of learning	p. 85
Lavendar soap	p. 96
The lawyer's story	p. 106
The Great Taco War	p. 115
Those on bathroom walls	p. 119
Immigration blues	p. 121
The rootless people	p. 123
Selections from Drops of this story	p. 127
What has become of us here?	p. 134
The immigrant	p. 137
Aide-memoire	p. 138
I worry	p. 139
My American reality	p. 141
My story	p. 148
Yellow leaves	p. 154
The passport office	p. 157
First generation language, identity, achievement	p. 163
The immigrant story	p. 166
Funny-sounding names	p. 170
Queen of the West Indies	p. 176
Chuck pehlivanian	p. 183
From "letters to my father"	p. 185
Our life with the windsors	p. 187
A secret language	p. 196
Barely audible	p. 199
Everybody's business	p. 209
Dad	p. 211
Finally ... my two dads	p. 213
Una Carta a Puerto Rico/a letter to Puerto Rico	p. 217
Dakota thunderstorm	p. 219
Mama	p. 220
Choosing camps	p. 222
Drink	p. 223
Bungalow people	p. 227
Spanglish	p. 229
Gifts for the dead	p. 231
Both sides of the border	p. 232
Second generation assimilation and amnesia	p. 235
Ellis Island	p. 239
He who serves two masters disappoints one ... or both	p. 250
The shouting within us	p. 254
Leaving California for Ireland	p. 263
ABCs	p. 265
Yard sale	p. 267
Gorda, Mama and Victor	p. 273
The handkerchief	p. 280
Remembering my Spanish	p. 290
Poppa's girls	p. 294
A pipe	p. 299
The cockfight	p. 300
Exotic or "what beach do you hang out on?"	p. 302
From city to suburb America	p. 308
Looking to the future	p. 309
A tapestry of hope	p. 314
They shut my grandmother's room door	p. 319
Growing old in an alien landscape	p. 322
All educated with no place to go	p. 330
Histories	p. 332
It begins right here	p. 333
No memories at all	p. 342
Enforcement : a tool to control the flow of labor at the U.S.-Mexico border	p. 344
Ethics and interests in the immigration debate	p. 348
Migrant hybridity	p. 357
We are the miracle	p. 363
Your chosen land	p. 364
First writing since	p. 365
We have it	p. 371
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