Waking up American : coming of age biculturally : first-generation women reflect on identity / edited by Angela Jane Fountas.

Publisher: Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, c2005.

ISBN: 9781580051361 (pbk.) :
1580051367 (pbk.) :

Description: ix, 232 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Children of immigrants United States.
Women United States.
Biculturalism United States.

Contents: Raising the mango / Angela M. Balcita -- Urdu, my love song / Rasma Haidri -- Hello Kitty packs heat / Tina Lee -- Palindrome / Lisa Swanstrom -- Blending the red with the white and the blue / Margaret Gelbwasser -- Caught between worlds : a Pakistani-Muslim adolescence in America / Maliha Masood -- (un)American / Patricia Justine Tumang -- My father's mother tongue / Angela Jane Fountas -- Lone stars / Lan Tran -- Saying something in African / Emiene Shija Wright -- A lesson in posture / Jenesha de Rivera -- Under the mandap / Sona Pai -- Fooling Mexicans / Maria Elena Fernández -- Rising and falling / Anne Liu Kellor -- The art of making hot tea / Jenny R. Sadre-Orafai -- Up the mountain from Petionville : a conversation between two Haitian-American queer women / Amy Andrá and Marlene Barberousse-Nikolin -- Sex in translation / Laura Fokkena -- The Latina in me / Rosie Molinary -- Kimiko / Melissa Secola -- The hyphenated American : on checking "other" / Monica Villavicencio -- Back in the U.S.S.R. / Victoria Gomelsky.