Visions and Divisions

Chronology
Introduction: The Literature of the New Chill
A Note on the Text
The Restriction/Open Door Debate	p. 1
Text of the Chinese Exclusion Act	p. 7
The New Colossus	p. 11
Unguarded Gates	p. 12
Twelve Hundred More	p. 14
John Chinaman in New York	p. 16
Poems of Angel Island	p. 18
Songs of Gold Mountain	p. 20
The Biography of a Chinaman	p. 21
Veronika and the Angelinos	p. 30
What Is an American? The Suicide of the Anglo-American	p. 39
Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You	p. 47
The Promised Land	p. 49
The Americanization of Roll-Down Joe	p. 57
Mother America	p. 65
Alma Mater: The Immigrant at Columbia	p. 67
The Assimilation Debate	p. 69
True Americanism	p. 75
Ellis Island	p. 85
The Alien	p. 86
Moses	p. 90
Old China	p. 91
Songs of Gold Mountain	p. 92
The Lie	p. 93
A Great Man	p. 110
The Wisdom of the New	p. 119
The Foreigner	p. 135
America	p. 138
Dead Are My People	p. 139
A Simple Act of Piety	p. 143
I Dreamt I Was a Donkey-Boy Again	p. 158
On Being Black	p. 160
A Slavic Oklahoman	p. 164
The Melting Pot Debate	p. 171
Americanization	p. 177
The Melting Pot	p. 180
The Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks	p. 181
Sweet Burning Incense	p. 183
Salvatore Schneider - A Story of New York	p. 190
Uncle Wellington's Wives	p. 199
The Apostate of Chego-Chegg	p. 224
Maggie's Minstrel	p. 239
The Alien in the Melting Pot	p. 250
Chinaman, Laundryman	p. 251
Rickshaw Boy	p. 254
A Yellow Man and a White	p. 257
The Old Lamp	p. 268
Happiness	p. 277
The Cultural Pluralism Debate	p. 279
Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot: A Study of American Nationality	p. 284
Trans-National America	p. 306
Introduction	p. 319
Foreign Country	p. 320
Paderewski	p. 321
A Polish Girl	p. 322
The Island of Desire	p. 323
The Greenhorn in America	p. 332
Songs of Gold Mountain	p. 340
Unconverted	p. 342
Kalaun, the Elephant Trainer	p. 346
The Tooth of Antar	p. 355
H.R.H. The Prince of Hester Street	p. 364
Sources	p. 377
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