Crossing into America : The New Literature of Immigration Book

	Acknowledgments
	List of Illustrations
	Introduction: The New Literature of Immigration
Pt. I	Crossing ...
	from Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant	3
	Our Papers	15
	from A Map of Where I Live	21
	from Angela's Ashes	28
	from To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America	39
	Geraldo No Last Name	57
	from the Gangster of Love	59
	from Dreambirds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune	68
	Bi-lingual	72
	Crossing "a piece of earth"	73
	from Between the Lines	76
Pt. II	... into America
	from Between the Lines	83
	from Lucy	89
	Hae Soon's Song	97
	Exile	112
	from Native Speaker	114
	The Cariboo Cafe	130
	My New World Journey	147
	Snow on the Desert	156
	from We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?	161
	AmeRican	178
	Made in the Tropics	181
	Absorption of Rock	183
	The Cleaving	185
	Mexico's Children	197
	Thanksgiving	220
	Pidgin Contest along I-5	223
	Immigrants	237
	Exile	244
Pt. III	Debates and Contexts
	The Legal Mapping of U.S. Immigration, 1965-1996	257
	"A Nation of Immigrants": Select Opinion on Immigration Since 1965	270
	Between Necessity and Freedom: A Roundtable Discussion on Recent Immigration Issues	295
	The New Immigration and the Literature of Asian America	314
	Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures	327
	List of Contributors	343
	A Select Bibliography of the New Immigration Literature, Scholarship, and Resources	353
	Permissions	361