ethnic identity

The young Ukrainian artist, Sasha Kotyenko, discusses her culture and traditions, and describes a painting she made of herself and her sisters embroidering.

A guide for parents and other people who work with African-American and biracial children, discussing the danger of sensitizing children to the existence of racial bigotry, and arguing that children who are loved and shielded as much as possible from racism, grow up with high self-esteem regardless of their race.

Collects more than thirty personal essays, memoirs, historical writings, and poems by Native Americans, which examine the survival of indigenous groups' identities despite forced assimilation.

A study of politics and power on contemporary Indian reservations, dispelling the stereotype of the victimized Native American and arguing that the political sovereignty of some tribes has had damaging effects on surrounding communities.

The author, born in the U.S. in 1974 to Afghan immigrants, describes her upbringing, her family's past, and her dual identity, and discusses relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan before and after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Twenty-two Native American writers, from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, write in fiction and essay about childhood--Cover.

A second-generation Arab American and daughter of an outspoken Palestinian advocate describes her struggles with her identity growing up in Manhattan and the denial she felt while assimilating into different social and economic groups.

Explains the distinctive place of Kalenjin nationalism in Kenyan politics as well as the role of ethnicity in Africa and traces the work of indigenous intellectuals and independence-era political leaders in shaping a larger sense of collective kinship among people sharing a broadly similar language and culture.

A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.

When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the United States, it was inevitable that the early life of a first-generation Thai-American would be the stuff of a lively, entertaining, and often hilarious memoir. His family's bi-level home was "Thailand with American conveniences". He ate Thai food, spoke the language, and observed the customs. His bedtime stories were tales of Buddha and monkey-faced demons. On his first day of school his mother reminded him that he had a Siamese warrior's eyes as his Aunty Sue packed his Muppets lunch box with fried rice. Through it all Ira coped and thrived in his two cultures and grew up to write and become an assistant professor or English at the University of South Florida.