Growing up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction about Learning to Be American Book

	Introduction
	The Writer in the Family	3
	Rules of the Game	18
	Looking for Work	32
	The Best Deal in America	39
	The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne	45
	The New Negro	64
	A Half-Breed's Dream Vacation	68
	Americanism	76
	Railroad Standard Time	83
	American History	93
	The Red Convertible	103
	from The Bluest Eye	115
	Killing the Bees	122
	Drowning	136
	Magic	149
	The Cossacks of Connecticut	156
	Mericans	169
	What Means Switch	175
	Myrna and Me	197
	Dinner with Father	200
	Brandy Cake	205
	Drowning Kittens	227
	Portrait of the Lone Survivor	238
	Holy Toledo	242
	Carlton Fredericks and My Mother	260
	Honey Boy	268
	This Is What ItMeans to Say Phoenix, Arizona	287
	from Mama's Girl	302
	from Recollections of My Life as a Woman	307
	Red Velvet Dress	312
	Grandpa's "Chicaudies"	320
	Thanksgiving in a Monsoonless Land	326
	To Change in a Good Way	342
	The Moths	349
	Talking to the Dead	356
	Contributors	369
	Index	375