American Identities

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

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.

Alternative Contents by Genre x Preface: How to Use This Book xiii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Part I Identity, Family, And Memory 6 Understanding Identity 1 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People? 8 Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey American Families in Historical Perspective 2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s 17 Stephanie Coontz Memory and Community 3 Generational Memory in an American Town 29 John Bodnar 4 Growing Up Asian in America 39 Kesaya E. Noda Part II World War II And The Postwar Era 19401960 46 World War II and American Families 5 War Babies 48 Maria Fleming Tymoczko 6 From Citizen 13660 56 Mine Okubo The Cold War and Domestic Politics 7 Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth 65 Elaine Tyler May 8 The Problem That Has No Name 71 Betty Friedan 9 The Civil Rights Revolution, 19451960 78 William H. Chafe 10 From Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestics Life 84 Alice Childress Family Migrations, Urban and Suburban 11 Songs of the Chicago Blues 90 12 Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage 93 Jack Agueros 13 From Goodbye, Columbus 103 Philip Roth Part III War And Social Movements, 19601975 112 The Civil Rights Movement 14 Letter from Birmingham City Jail 114 Martin Luther King, Jr. 15 Message to the Grass Roots 119 Malcolm X 16 Songs of the Civil Rights Movement 126 Student Activism 17 Port Huron Statement 130 Students for a Democratic Society 18 The Port Huron Statement at 40 134 Tom Hayden and Richard Flacks The Vietnam War 19 From Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam 138 Christian G. Appy 20 From Born on the Fourth of July 143 Ron Kovic 21 From Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans 150 Richard J. Ford III Black and Puerto Rican Power 22 Black Power: Its Need and Substance 158 Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton 23 Respect 166 Aretha Franklin 24 Say It Loud (Im Black and Im Proud) 168 James Brown 25 13-Point Program and Platform 170 Young Lords Party Womens Lives, Womens Rights 26 Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism 174 Sara M. Evans 27 Now Bill of Rights 185 National Organization for Women 28 The Liberation of Black Women 187 Pauli Murray 29 Jessie Lopez De La Cruz: The Battle for Farmworkers Rights 192 Ellen Cantarow The American Indian Movement 30 This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It 203 Vine Deloria, Jr. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island 208 Indians of All Tribes The Gay Liberation Movement 31 Gay Liberation 212 John DEmilio and Estelle B. Freedman 32 The Fighting Irishman 218 A. Damien Martin 33 The Drag Queen 226 Rey Sylvia Lee Rivera The New American Right 34 From Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right 233 Lisa McGirr Part IV A Postindustrial And Global Society, 19752000 240 Deindustrializing America 35 From The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America 242 Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone 36 From It Aint No Sin To Be Glad Youre Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen 249 Eric Alterman 37 A Musical Representation of Work in Postindustrial America 254 38 Class in America: Myths and Realities (2000) 264 Gregory Mantsios Marriage and Family: Modern and Postmodern 39 From Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood 272 Kristin Luker 40 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families 281 Judith Stacey Multicultural America 41 From Jasmine 290 Bharati Mukherjee 42 Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural 300 Claudine Chiawei OHearn 43 From The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems 305 Sherman Alexie The United States as Borderlands 44 Through a Glass Darkly: Toward the Twenty-first Century 309 Ronald Takaki 45 To live in the Borderlands means you 316 Gloria Anzaldua 4