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Tables of Contents for Multi America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Ishmael Reed
Introduction
xv
1 THE UNBEARABLE WHITENESS OF BEING
3
18
Werner Sollors
How Americans Became White: Three Examples
3
3
Robert Elliot Fox
Becoming Post-White
6
15
2 STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
21
92
A. Robert Lee
Multicultural Europe: Odds, Bets, Chances
21
4
Ngozi O. Ola
A Yoruba American in Germany
25
6
Calvin Hernton
Minorities in England: A Report
31
12
Miguel Algarin
A Nuyorican in South Africa: South African Diaries
43
11
Kathryn Waddell
Takara
"It Happens All the Time" --or Does It?
54
12
Yuri Kageyama
Catching the Rush-Hour Train-Sketches of Life in Japan
66
7
Gundars Strads
Now That the Iron Curtain Is Gone, Where Do We Build the Fences?
73
12
Danny Romero
A Chicano in Philadelphia
85
8
Rudolfo Anaya
A Chicano in Spain
93
9
Juan Felipe
Herrera
The Colored Trickster and the Frida Painter
102
11
3 TO PASS OR NOT TO PASS
113
32
Tennessee Reed
Being Mixed in America
113
3
Karla Brundage
Passing
116
7
Allison Francis
Why Am I Still Onstage at the Cotton Club?
123
4
Lucia Chiavola
Birnbaum
The African Heritage of Italian and Other European Americans-and All Peoples of the Earth
127
11
Robin Washington
Black and Jewish Like Jesus and Me
138
7
4 IS EUROPEAN AMERICA DEAD?
145
44
Lois Matt-Fassbinder
Breaking the Silence
145
7
Helen Barolini
The Case of the Missing Italian American Writers
152
8
Daniela Gioseffi
Is There a Renaissance in Italian American Literature?
160
9
Lawrence Di Stasi
How World War II Iced Italian American Culture
169
10
David Lloyd
"Living in America": Politics and the Irish Immigrant
179
10
5 FRICTION: INTER-ETHNIC, INTERNECINE, FRATRICIDAL
189
136
Maulana Karenga
Black and Latino Relations: Context, Challenge, and Possibilities
189
16
Elaine H. Kim
Asian Americans: Decorative Gatekeepers?
205
8
Brenda Payton
Blacks, Browns, and Yellows at Odds
213
5
Amaritjit Singh
The Possibilities of a Radical Consciousness: African Americans and New Immigrants
218
20
Martin Kilson
The Interaction of the Black Mainstream Leadership and the Farrakhan Extremists
238
8
Roberto Rodriguez
Patrisia Gonzales
Black/Brown Relations: An Unnecessary Conflict
246
11
William Wong
White Fright Over Oakland Redistricting
257
4
Ana Castillo
A Countryless Woman: The Early Feminista
261
19
Barbara Smith
Where's the Revolution?
280
6
Frank Chin
Rashomon Road: On the Tao to San Diego
286
23
Joe Chung Fong
Ethnic Conflict and Harmony Between African and Asian Americans in the United States
309
10
Hoyt Sze
Sexism in Asian America
319
6
6 IMAGE DISTORTION DISORDER
325
48
Michael LeNoir
Media Distortion Disorder
325
3
Nathan Hare
Crazy with the Heat
328
9
Gerald Horne
Behind the "Times"
337
7
Nicolas Kanellos
An American Multicultural Response
344
4
Marco Portales
Hispanics and the Media
348
11
K. Connie Kang
All-American Girl and Images of Asians in the Media
359
7
Jack Foley
Multiculturalism and the Media
366
7
7 WHAT'S AHEAD FOR ETHNIC STUDIES?
373
30
Gerald Vizenor
Ethnic Derivatives: Tricksterese versus Anthropologetics
373
8
William M. Banks
Stefanie Kelly
Guess Who's Coming to Academia?
381
10
Amiri Baraka
Multinational, Multicultural America versus White Supremacy
391
4
Russell Ellis
Color at Cal
395
8
8 THE PARIAH SYNDROME
403
40
Michael E. Ross
Black Male Perp: Interview with the Boogeyman
403
14
Earl Ofari
Hutchinson
The Criminalization of Black Men
417
8
Elena Caceres
Fifty Years in America: Through Back Doors
425
9
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Border Patrol State
434
9
9 THE FUTURE: NATIONALISM OR INTERNATIONALISM?
443
23
Haki R. Madhubuti
Cultural Work: Planting New Trees with New Seeds
443
8
Ortiz Montaigne
Walton
Toward a Non-Racial, Non-Ethnic Society
451
3
Bharati Mukherjee
Beyond Multiculturalism: Surviving the Nineties
454
8
John A. Williams
One More Time
462
4
Biographical Notes
466