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The ethnic American woman : problems, protests, lifestyle / Edith Blicksilver

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Editor:
Blicksilver, Edith  Search this
Physical description:
x, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Literary collections
Literature
Place:
United States
Date:
1978
©1978
20th century
Notes:
Also issued online.
NMAI copy 39088019655612 gift of Rayna Green.
Contents:
Growing up ethnic. from Born with the dead / Irina Kirk -- Special places ; Women / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve -- The southern Jewish American princess (in the fabulous fifties) / Arlene G. Peck -- Rich is better / Helen S. Garson -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Looking back / Rose Mary Prosen -- My Norwegian-American parents' courtship / Thelma Jones -- The rent money in the garbage pail and other tenement memories / Dorothy Friedman -- An ancient heritage in a new world / Maria B. Frangis
Tangled vines, thorns, and flowers : the family. My grandmother the WASP / Doras Reed Benbow -- Canuck, translation of Vic's Revolt by Armand B. Chartier / Camille Lessard -- Lullaby / Leslie Silko -- My father's war / Anne Webster -- Her life ; Explanation / Esta Seaton -- Whatever he did had flourish / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- Goodbye and good luck / Grace Paley -- The power of prayer / Elizabeth Cullinan -- To the reader / Mary McCarthy -- Polka, a memorial tribute for my mother and father ; Chronicle 1931-1945 ; Olga / Rose Mary Prosen -- The Cremona violin (after E.T.A. Hoffmann's story) ; More light / Lisel Mueller -- A very special pet / Nicholasa Mohr -- Beryl / Lyn Lifshin -- We wise children / Teruko Ogata Daniel -- The ways it is (nine poems) / Nila Northsun -- Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni
The classroom and beyond. For dimes and quarters / Monica Krawczyk -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- The proper thing to say, to do and to wear / Ann C. Hooper -- Grandmother Skoglund's advice to Lyng and the university experience / Borghild Dahl -- Toussaint / Ntozake Shange -- For Rita Kohn / Marina Rivera -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The ethnic child and the classroom experience / Betty Smith
That elusive identity. Nisei, Nisei! / Ferris Takahashi -- No dogs and Chinese allowed / Kumi Kilburn -- An appearance of being Chinese ; Saying yes ; Otherness / Diana Chang -- The barriers are not real / Katie Funk Wiebe -- To a brown spider : en el cielo / Angela de Hoyos -- Such, such were the joys--George Orwell / Teruko Ogata Daniel -- All the pretty little horses / Anonymous -- Chanukah, Camp Hill, Alabama / Janet Rechtman -- Mental portfolio of an Eurasian / Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) -- The Jewish feminist : conflict in identities / Judith Plaskow -- The liberation of a first generation Slovak-American woman / Sonya Jason -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Ethnicity to humanity / Sharon Renée Twombly
Exploitation in human relationships. Ballad of Pearl May Lee / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Born to suicide / LaVerne González -- Chon / Marina Rivera -- Listen to my story / Eve Silver -- Lullabye / Janice Mirikitani
The working woman. A black congresswoman speaks out for women's rights / Shirley Chisholm -- Eva Jessye : Earth Mother incarnate / Helen C. Smith -- Dr. Evangeline Papageorge : a Greek who bore warm gifts / Loral Graham -- The childhood of an immigrant working girl / Rose Schneiderman
Religion and ritual. What must I say to you? / Norma Rosen -- God and ethnicity / Borghild Dahl -- Black baptism / Laurraine Goreau -- Growing up as a Polish American / Sister M. Florence Tumasz, CSFN -- Seder / Lyn Lifshin -- from Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser
Reaching out : memories, dreams, hopes. Things in common ; Black Tuesday ; A note about iconographs / May Swenson -- Downtown San Antonio in front of the Majestic Theatre / Evangelina Vigil -- A trace of gold / Phyllis J. Scherle -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- The parade / Liz Sohappy -- Kerosene lamp / Valentina Sinkevich -- Memories of our old wood stove / Marie Prisland
Ethnic pride. Mardi Gras and the white flying horses / Laurraine Goreau -- The last song / Joy Harjo -- Sing with your body / Janice Mirikitani -- The Indian market ; Once again / Liz Sohappy -- As red as it was ; Pass over the blood / Aviva Barzel -- Who was really the savage? / Rose Mary (Shingobe) Barstow -- Ruby's discovery / Ruby Reyes Flowers
The immigrant experience. The best of two worlds / Heidi Rockwood -- The Norwegian-American immigrant girl and morality / Dorothy Burton Skärdal -- No problems, or protests : I like the lifestyle / Avril Sutin -- The new colossus ; The crowing of the red cock / Emma Lazarus -- Two letters from Swedish-American Women. Letter from M.M. North Dakota, no date ; Letter from Minnesota, Emma Bloom, 18 of May, 1915 -- Return to Romania / Juliana Geran Pilon -- Never the city's name / Lyn Lifshin -- From country Cork to New York with the Jacksons / Enid Mescon -- The pleasures and pains of the India-n-American ethnic experience / Uma Majmudar
Seeking a better tomorrow. Hermano / Angela de Hoyos -- The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Speech on woman's suffrage / Sojourner Truth -- The burning of paper instead of children / Adrienne Rich -- Children / Rowena Wildin -- Refuse to be a victim / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni
Literary critiques. The Italian immigrant woman in American literature / Rose Basile Green -- Ethnic girls speak out / Edith Blicksilver
Topic:
American literature--Women authors  Search this
American literature--Minority authors  Search this
American literature  Search this
Women  Search this
Minorities  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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