American Identities

Lois P. Rudnick is Professor of English and American Studies and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Judith E. Smith is Professor of American Studies and Director, Graduate Program in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Rachel Lee Rubin is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

“This unique collection has what students (and their teachers) will find absorbing, provocative, and useful in that perennial quest to locate ourselves in a world we may not have made but that we can understand and change.” Paul Lauter, Trinity College

• Alternative Contents by Genre xPreface: How to Use This Book xiiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1PART I IDENTITY, FAMILY, AND MEMORY 6Understanding Identity1 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People? 8Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-ReyAmerican Families in Historical Perspective2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s 17Stephanie CoontzMemory and Community3 Generational Memory in an American Town 29John Bodnar4 Growing Up Asian in America 39Kesaya E. Noda PART II WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR ERA 1940–1960 46World War II and American Families5 War Babies 48Maria Fleming Tymoczko6 From Citizen 13660 56Mine´ OkuboThe Cold War and Domestic Politics7 Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth 65Elaine Tyler May8 The Problem That Has No Name 71Betty Friedan9 The Civil Rights Revolution, 1945–1960 78William H. Chafe10 From Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life 84Alice ChildressFamily Migrations, Urban and Suburban11 Songs of the Chicago Blues 9012 Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage 93Jack Agüeros13 From Goodbye, Columbus 103Philip RothPART III WAR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, 1960–1975 112The Civil Rights Movement14 Letter from Birmingham City Jail 114Martin Luther King, Jr.15 Message to the Grass Roots 119Malcolm X16 Songs of the Civil Rights Movement 126Student Activism17 Port Huron Statement 130Students for a Democratic Society18 The Port Huron Statement at 40 134Tom Hayden and Richard FlacksThe Vietnam War19 From Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam 138Christian G. Appy20 From Born on the Fourth of July 143Ron Kovic21 From Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans 150Richard J. Ford IIIBlack and Puerto Rican Power22 Black Power: Its Need and Substance 158Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton23 ‘‘Respect’’ 166Aretha Franklin24 ‘‘Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)’’ 168James Brown25 13-Point Program and Platform 170Young Lords PartyWomen’s Lives, Women’s Rights26 Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism 174Sara M. Evans27 NOW Bill of Rights 185National Organization for Women28 The Liberation of Black Women 187Pauli Murray29 Jessie Lopez De La Cruz: The Battle for Farmworkers’ Rights 192Ellen CantarowThe American Indian Movement30 This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It 203Vine Deloria, Jr.The Occupation of Alcatraz Island 208Indians of All TribesThe Gay Liberation Movement31 Gay Liberation 212John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman32 The Fighting Irishman 218A. Damien Martin33 The Drag Queen 226Rey ‘‘Sylvia Lee’’ RiveraThe New American Right34 From Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right 233Lisa McGirrPART IV A POSTINDUSTRIAL AND GLOBAL SOCIETY, 1975–2000 240Deindustrializing America35 From The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America 242Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone36 From ‘‘It Ain’t No Sin To Be Glad You’re Alive’’: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen 249Eric Alterman37 A Musical Representation of Work in Postindustrial America 25438 Class in America: Myths and Realities (2000) 264Gregory MantsiosMarriage and Family: Modern and Postmodern39 From Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood 272Kristin Luker40 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families 281Judith StaceyMulticultural America41 From Jasmine 290Bharati Mukherjee42 Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural 300Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn43 From The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems 305Sherman AlexieThe United States as Borderlands44 Through a Glass Darkly: Toward the Twenty-first Century 309Ronald Takaki45 ‘‘To live in the Borderlands means you’’ 316Gloria Anzaldúa46 From No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies 318Naomi KleinPART V THE FUTURE OF US ALL? 32647 Brave New World: Gray Boys, Funky Aztecs, and Honorary Homegirls 328Lynell George48 From The Future of Us All 335Roger Sanjek49 The Society That Unions Can Build 348David ReynoldsText and Illustration Credits 359Index 364