Contents
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Part I: The Restriction/Open Door Debate
Text of the "Chinese Exclusion Act"
"The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus
"Unguarded Gates," Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"Twelve Hundred More," Anonymous
"John Chinaman in New York," by Mark Twain
Poems from Angel Island: ["Instead of remaining a citizen of china"], ["Being idle in the wooden building"], ["Four days before the Qiqiao Festival"], ["The young children do not yet know worry"], "Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape," and ["For one month I was imprisoned"]; Anonymous
Songs of Gold Mountain: ["At a moment of tremendous opportunity"] and [Spring returns to the continent"]; Anonymous
"The Biography of a Chinaman," by Lee Chew
"Veronika and the Angelinos," Caspar Day
"What Is an American?: The Suicide of the Anglo-American," by Honor¿ Willsie
"Don't Bite the Hand that's Feeding You," by Thomas Hoier and Jimmie Morgan
"The Promised Land," by Lewis E. MacBrayne
"The Americanization of Roll-Down Joe," by James B. Connolly
"Mother America," by Onorio Ruotolo
"Alma Mater," by Ajan Syrian
Part II: The Assimilation Debate
"True Americanism," by Theodore Roosevelt
"Ellis Island," by C.A. Price
"The Alien," by Henry Blake Fuller
"Old China" and "Moses," by Morris Abel Beer
Songs of Gold Mountain: ["Since I left South China"], Anonymous
"The Lie," by Mary Antin
"A Great Man," Adriana Spadoni
"The Wisdom of the New," by Sui Sin Far
"The Foreigner," by Amy Lowell
"America," by Claude McKay
"Dead Are My People (Written in Exile during the Famine in Syria)," by Kahlil Gibran
"A Simple Act of Piety," by Achmed Abdullah
"I Dreamt I Was a Donkey Boy Again," by Ameen Rihani
"On Being Black," Eric Walrond
"A Slavic Oklahoman," by Edward A. Steiner
Part III: The Melting Pot Debate
"Americanization," by Joseph Stybr
"The Melting Pot," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks," by Arthur M. Swanstrom and Carey Morgan
"Sweet Burning Incense," by Jeanette Dailey
"Salvatore Schneider," by Ernest Poole
"Uncle Wellington's Wives," by Charles W. Chesnutt
"The Apostate of Chego-Chegg," by Abraham Cahan
"Maggie's Minstrel," by Florence Converse
"The Alien in the Melting Pot," by Frederick J. Haskin
"Chinaman, Laundryman" and "Rickshaw Boy," by H.T. Tsiang
"A Yellow Man and a White," by Eleanor Gates
"The Old Lamp," Catalina P ez
"Happiness," by Carl Sandburg
Part IV: The Cultural Pluralism Debate
"Democracy Versus the Melting Pot," by Horace Kallen
"Transnational America," by Randolph Bourne
"Introduction" and "Foreign Country," by Dmytro Zakharchuk
"Paderewski," by Dorothy Dudley
"A Polish Girl," by Max Michelson
"The Island of Desire," by Robert Haven Schauffler
"The Greenhorn in America," by Maria Moravsky
Songs of Gold Mountain: ["Husband: his foolishness is second to none"], ["Husband: so dumb, second to none"], ["American ways are very extreme"]; Anonymous
"Unconverted," by Bruno Lessing
"Kalaun, the Elephant Trainer," by Margherita Arlina Hamm
"The Tooth of Antar," Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke
"H.R.H. The Prince of Hester Street," by Myra Kelly
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Index