The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American

by Thomas C. Wheeler (Editor)

Overview

Nine narratives by immigrants and their descendants illuminate the experience of becoming American. Contributors include Czeslaw Milosz, and Mario Puzo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140154467
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/12/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

The Immigrant ExperienceIntroduction Thomas C. Wheeler

1. Pride and Poverty: An Irish Integrity
William Alfred

2. Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen
Mario Puzo

3. Pioneers to Eternity: Norwegians on the Prairie
Eugene Boe

4. Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage
Jack Agueros

5. Puritans from the Orient: A Chinese Evolution
Jade Snow Wong

6. Time and Tide: Roots and Black Awareness
John A. Williams

7. America, the Thief: A Jewish Search for Freedom
Harry Roskolenko

8. The Center of Impermanence: New York in the Eyes of an Englishman
Alan Pryce-Jones

9. Biblical Heirs and Modern Evils: A Polish Poet in California
Czeslaw Milosz