Immigrant Voices : Twenty-Four Voices on Becoming an American

by Hutner, Gordon (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780451526984
• ISBN10: 0451526988
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

This wonderful anthology recreates the past from the voices of those who struggled to adapt to the "new world". Facing such adversity as assimilation, prejudice, poverty, homesickness, and identity, these newcomers were able to persevere and their inspiring stories are full of hope, faith, and conviction. Gathering together narratives from the 18th to the 20th century, this one-of-a-kind collection provides both a historical and uniquely personal perspective on the struggles and successes of immigrants--and illuminates for readers the difficult, rewarding experience of becoming an American.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Letters from an American Farmer	1	(22)
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
Inquiries of an Emigrant	23	(17)
Joseph Pickering
A True Picture of Emigration	40	(16)
Rebecca Burlend
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie	56	(13)
Andrew Carnegie
Frontier Mother	69	(16)
Gro Svendsen
The Nun of Kenmare	85	(12)
Margaret Anna Cusack
A Woman's Quest	97	(7)
Marie Zakrzewska
Story of a Pioneer	104	(17)
Anna Howard Shaw
Memoirs of Henry Villard	121	(20)
Henry Villard
The Making of an American	141	(17)
Jacob Riis
The Promised Land	158	(10)
Mary Antin
From Alien to Citizen	168	(17)
Edward Steiner
A Far Journey	185	(13)
Abraham Rihbany
The Americanization of Edward Bok	198	(16)
Edward Bok
Up Stream	214	(20)
Ludwig Lewisohn
Caste and Outcast	234	(10)
Dhan Ghopal Mukerji
A Daughter of the Samurai	244	(10)
Etsu Sugimoto
From Immigrant to Inventor	254	(25)
Michael Pupin
The Soul of an Immigrant	279	(20)
Constantine Panunzio
A Long Way From Home	299	(13)
Claude McKay
Chinaman's Chance	312	(16)
No-Yong Park
America Is in the Heart	328	(9)
Carlos Bulosan
Barrio Boy	337	(25)
Ernesto Galarza
Quiet Odyssey	362
Mary Paik Lee