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Author: Marie P. Fujii Publisher: ISBN: 9780981640334 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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In this family memoir, Marie Park Fujii recounts the story or her Korean immigrant family as they overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties by drawing on their close family ties, strong work ethic, optimism and unfailing good humor. Papa came alone from Korea to America in 1904, eventually saving enough to have his family join him. Mama?s unexpected death after the birth of their last child shook his world. Suddenly, Papa was fed with the daunting task of raising seven children, ages two to fourteen, by himself, in a foreign land. America was now his home. As a farmer during the Depression years in Oregon and then Idaho, he struggled to keep his family together. These tales of Papa and his children are sometimes poignant, but more often humorous and a testament to a family that thrived in spite of the lash between Papa?s old world values and the Americanization of his children.
Author: Marie P. Fujii Publisher: ISBN: 9780981640334 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
In this family memoir, Marie Park Fujii recounts the story or her Korean immigrant family as they overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties by drawing on their close family ties, strong work ethic, optimism and unfailing good humor. Papa came alone from Korea to America in 1904, eventually saving enough to have his family join him. Mama?s unexpected death after the birth of their last child shook his world. Suddenly, Papa was fed with the daunting task of raising seven children, ages two to fourteen, by himself, in a foreign land. America was now his home. As a farmer during the Depression years in Oregon and then Idaho, he struggled to keep his family together. These tales of Papa and his children are sometimes poignant, but more often humorous and a testament to a family that thrived in spite of the lash between Papa?s old world values and the Americanization of his children.
Author: Robert Schrank Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262692267 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 482
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The compelling autobiography of Robert Schrank recounts a life of empathy, principles, and activism. "I was born two weeks before the Bolshevik Revolution into an immigrant family that was part of New York's large German socialist community." So begins Robert Schrank's compelling autobiography. In a down-to-earth, anecdotal style, he recounts a life rare in the breadth of its experience and the depth of its transformations. From Young Communist League member and union activist to management consultant for global corporations, Schrank has lived a life based on empathy and principles, and has been an activist in some of the major political and social upheavals of this century.Schrank writes from the point of view of the rank and file, even when describing his role in the leadership of the New York State Machinists Union. A rebel in his own land, he was expelled three times from union office; and in a landmark First Amendment case (Schrank vs. Brown) the State Supreme Court twice returned him to membership. Convinced by the early 1950s of the failure of socialism in the Soviet Union, he broke with the Party. Yet he remained faithful to the ideals of his radical upbringing, even as he joined the corporate world of his former enemies.
Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101640200 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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Stories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan The editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on themes of racial and ethnic assimilation. With humor, passion, and grace, the contributors lay bare poignant attempts at conformity and the alienation sometimes experienced by ethnic Americans. But they also tell of the strength gained through the preservation of their communities, and the realization that it was often their difference from the norm that helped them to succeed. In pieces suggesting that American identity is far from settled, these writers illustrate the diversity that is the source of both the nation's great discord and infinite promise. "These beautiful stories radiate with the poignant, ingenious ways young people come to terms with their ethnic identities, negotiating their families, school, friends and their futures . . . This exemplary collection fulfills the editors' aims: to open dialogue and encourage the telling of difficult, adaptive or affirming life experiences." -Publisher's Weekly
Author: Emil Draitser Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520942256 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"—even in casual conversation—he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.
Author: Reid Buckley Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416572414 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 472
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Written by one of his children, this book offers an unprecedented insider's view of oilman Will Buckley and his wife, and chronicles how the Buckley family have become the mainstays of American conservatism in politics and culture. b&w photos.
Author: Aphrodite Matsakis Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738519562 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 134
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Since the beginning of the 20th century, St. Louis' Greek-American community has been a vibrant part of the city's fabric. Through a series of vivid personal accounts of growing up in two worlds during the post-WWII era, Growing Up Greek in St. Louis explores the challenges faced by Greek-Americans as they sought to preserve a rich cultural heritage while assimilating to American ways. From a detailed account of her Grandmothers' struggles during the occupation of Greece during WWII and the Asia Minor Holocaust to the first hand experiences faced by Greek-American children in Greek school, the celebration of name days, and the ever-present "evil eye," the book captures the sense of tradition, history, hospitality (philotimo), and community so vital to the Greek experience.
Author: William Schiff Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426955286 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 271
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Witty and softly sardonic, William Schiffs autobiographical romp describes his lifelong travels from early childhood to the Golden Years. Growing Up and Getting Old Behind the Wheel: An American Auto Biography is framed in a web of Americana, including cars he has ridden in, driven, modified, and even stolen. The span of his story is peppered with allusions to the locales, books, films, music, and social politics of the times he has experienced. He describes his youthful descent with friends into light criminalityhis incarceration, and his ultimate salvation and redemption through America's universities, rather than through its Churches. He sketches his menial jobs as a youth, as well as his later roles as student, university professor, parent, behavioral scientist, and retiree. If youve lived in America between 1940 and today, youll want to come along on the engrossing scenic drive through his vivid memories.
Author: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 9780819562821 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 546
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An anthology of 62 stories from around the non-Euro-American world providing new definitions of cultural diversity and commonality and an invaluable tool for teachers responding to the growing need for multicultural literature. Over the past two decades, sweeping political changes and burgeoning new technologies have resulted in communities being increasingly defined in global as well as regional and national terms. Although the intellectual terra nova of world cultures remains largely uncharted, this anthology of sixty-two stories from around the non-Euro-American world provides what Elisabeth Young-Bruehl calls "an introductory map to the great wealth of literary works now being produced in, at once, the particular settings of the writers' experiences and the global setting." Young-Bruehl finds that while the cultural diversity the stories exemplify is amazing, so too is the similarity in thematic terms of the concerns that this diversity presents. Thus she organized Global Cultures thematically to highlight and clarify how these worldwide cultures both converge and diverge. A comprehensive general introduction outlines forces behind the transnational approach to literary study and chapter introductions contextualize each story. Stories from India, Cuba, South Africa, and Uruguay are connected by the theme of exile and immigration; tales from Nigeria, Guatemala, Cameroon, and Egypt share a theme of political violence and civil uprisings; works from Taiwan, Chile, Jamaica, and Syria describe commonalities of women facing effects of modernization, prejudice, war, and immigration. Global Cultures contributes to the fast-growing body of contemporary short fictions newly available in English and is an invaluable resource to meet the need for multicultural literature.
Author: Laila Bhaidani Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd ISBN: 9352017765 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 157
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"What happens when the love that you are waiting for all your life, mistakes you for someone else? Can a transgender ever have an everlasting love story? How is the life of a 50- yr old woman who requires permission to pee everyday? ‘Us…Mostly’ is a collection of stories of the life of the ordinary people like you and me. It is the twist of fate, the choices they make, the chances they take, and the intricacies of their emotions that makes these ordinary characters around us live an extraordinary life These stories are in between the realms of right and wrong, black and white. It is about those human emotions that cannot be classified into stringent compartments and judged by stereotype moral standards. It is an ode to our love, our desires, our dreams, and our difficulties that shapes each one of us into something we never thought we could become."
Author: Marie P. Fujii
Author: Marie P. Fujii
Author: Robert Schrank
Author: Amelia Lau Carling
Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Author: Emil Draitser
Author: Reid Buckley
Author: Aphrodite Matsakis
Author: William Schiff
Author: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Author: Laila Bhaidani