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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing

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Immigration is the very important American story. From London or Lvov, Bombay or Beijing, Dublin or Dusseldorf, people have come to The us to remake themselves, their lives, and their identities. In spite of political obstacles, popular indifference, or hostility, they put down roots here, and their social, cultural, and entrepreneurial energies helped forge the open and diverse society we are living in. The history of American immigration has ceaselessly been told by those already here. Becoming Americans tells this epic story from the inside, gathering for the first time over 400 years of writing—from seventeenth-century Jamestown to recent Brooklyn and Los Angeles—by first-generation immigrants about the immigrant experience. In sum, over eighty writers create a vivid, passionate, and revealing firsthand account of the challenges and aspirations that define our dynamic multicultural society.

In nearly 100 selections—poems, stories, novel excerpts, go back and forth pieces, diary entries, memoirs, and letters—Becoming Americans presents the full range of the experience of coming to The us: the reasons for departure, the journey itself, the shock and spectacle of first arrival, the passionate ambivalence toward the old country and the old life, and above the entire struggle with the complexities of The us. Arranged in chronological order by date of arrival, this unprecedented collection presents a history of america that may be both familiar and surprisingly new, as seen through the fresh eyes and words of newcomers from more than forty different countries.

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