This thematic reader focuses on contemporary American culture and offers over 120 provocative readings and images representing a broad range of genres and diverse authorial voices.
This thematic reader focuses on contemporary American culture and offers over 120 provocative readings and images representing a broad range of genres and diverse authorial voices.
Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs.
Today, land claims are among the most contentious issues, along with such other grievances as legal restrictions on Native fisheries” (McMillan 1994: 231). The Northwest Coast was the most linguistically diverse and one of the ...
Insightful, thought-provoking, brutallyÑand beautifullyÑhonest, this book is sure to appeal to young adults everywhere. ÒNot to be missed.ÓÑSchool Library Journal, *starred review ÒÉa uniquely valuable resource.Ó ÑKirkus Reviews, ...
This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture.
Writings by and about Mexican Americans by Daniel Garza, Amado Muro, Durango Mendoza, Richard Dokey, Raymond Barrio, Luis Valdez, Cesar Chavez, Sister Mary Prudence Moylan, Ronald Arias, Jesus Ascension Arreola...
An introduction synthesizes the latest anthropological, archaeological, historical, and sociological scholarship and the 95 carefully edited selections provide students with an overview of Native American history from the earliest ...
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History , Culture , and Life Jonathan D. Sarna , Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman ... Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction Diane Matza , editor , 1996 Sephardic - American Voices : Two ...
John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the...
American Voices: units 2 and 3