Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land
By Unknown Author.
Description
This anthology of personal essay and autobiography follows the waves of immigration into and migration within the United States from 1900 to the present. Thirty-six writers of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds explore the specific tensions of being American with roots in another culture and also address historical moments which have defined American life during this century―the battle at Wounded Knee, the Second World War, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War, among them. Powerful, first-person accounts, they follow different paths. But each one is driven by the deep need to...
ISBN(s)
0892551747, 9780892551743
