These brief anthologies of ethnic American literature are ideal for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. They are designed to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature.

Foreword by Ishmael Reed. I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, AND NONFICTION ESSAY. Rendezvous, Frank Chin (b. 1940).The Making of More Americans, Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940).Mother Tongue, Amy Tan (b. 1952).The Color Yellow: Working Class, Asian American, Women and Feminism, Connie Ching So (b. 1964).II. FICTION. Sui Sin Far (1867-914).1936, Toshio Mori (b. 1910).Quicker with Arrows, Bienvenido Santos (b. 1911).The Romance of Magno Rubio, Carlos Bulosan (b. 1913-1956).Las Vegas Charley, Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921).Falling Free, Diana Chang (b. 1934).Nobody's Hero, Lonny Kaneko (b. 1939).The Management of Grief, Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940).Sing Song Plain Song, Jeffrey Paul Chan (b. 1942).Spoils of War, Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942).The Blossoming of Bongbong, Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949).Primo Doesn't Take Back Bottles Anymore, Darrell H.Y. Lum (b. 1950).Intermediate School Hapai, O. Wini Terada (b?).First Love, R. A. Sasaki (b. 1952).A Spell of Kona Weather, Sylvia Watanabe (b. 1952).Backdaire, Fae Myenne Ng (b. 1956).Waiting for Mr. Kim, Carol Roh-Spaulding (b. 1962).Those Years, T. C. Hou (b. ?).Leda, Robert Ji-Song Ku (b. 1964).Kelly, Monique Thuy-Dung Truong (b. 1968).III. POETRY. Legends from Camp, Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938).The Naturalization of Camellia Song, Woo Ping Chin (b. 1945).In My Mother's Dream. Seven Vietnamese Boys. The Country of Dreams and Dust, Russell Leong (b. 1950).Alan Valeriano Sees a Lynch Mob, Vince Gotera (b. 1952).Aswang. Dance of the Letters. Fighting Kite. Vietnam Era Vet. How I Got That Name, Marilyn Chin (b. 1955).A Break in the Rain. Elegy for Chloe Nguyen. Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth, Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955).The Youngest Daughter, Cathy Song (b. 1955).Easter: Waihiawa, 1959. Tribe. Into Such Assembly, Myung Mi Kim (9b. 1957).A Rose of Sharon.The Cleaving, Li-Young Lee (b. 1957).IV. DRAMA. The Music Lessons, Wakako Yamauchi (b. 1924).Alternate Table of Contents by Theme. Bibliography. Index. Acknowledgments.