LITR 5731: Seminar in American Multicultural Literature (Immigrant)

 Index to Research Postings, summer 2006

Copy of assignment

Carrie Arnett
1st posting: Breaking the Color Code: African American Assimilation
2nd posting: Distinguishing Between Race and Skin Color

Kristen Bird
1st posting: First World Immigrants & The American Dream.
2nd posting: Jewish Immigrant Information Bureau and Galveston

Pauline Chapman
1st posting: Immigrants from South Korea, Mexico, and Iran tell their stories
2nd posting: Immigrant Insights from China, India, and the Netherlands

Cherie Correa
1st posting: Why Do Immigrants from Nicaragua Seem to Resist Assimilation More than Some Other Hispanic Nationalities?
2nd posting: Why Do Mexican Americans Assimilate at a Slower Rate than Other Hispanic Nationalities?

Kaylee Daniel
1st posting: The Ambivalent Relationship between the US Navy and the Philippines
2nd posting: Assimilation and the Abandonment of the French Language in Louisiana

Kenneth Fisher
1st posting: The German American's Story
2nd posting: 
Trekking Through Whiteness Studies

Karen Gonzalez
1st posting: The Model Minorities – Living in Two Worlds
2nd posting: Sherman Alexie – Writing for his Culture

Midge Gorman
1st posting: Mixed Culture of the Hawaiian Islands
2nd posting: Hawaiian and Native American Cultural Similarities

Donny Leveston
1st posting: What are Some Similarities among African American and Mexican American Literatures?
2nd posting: What are Some Differences between African American and Mexican American Literatures?

Gordon Lewis
1st posting: Black American Minority Group: An Examination of the Viewpoints of John McWhorter
2nd posting: The Harlem Renaissance

Sharon Lockett
1st posting: Yezierska's "Autobiographical" Stories: Fact, Fiction, or Somewhere in Between?
2nd posting: The Autobiographies of Anzia Yezierska: Letting Go of Memories to Pursue Dreams

Amy Noblitt
1st posting: In Search of Our Cultural Identity: Genealogy Searches into Our Past
2nd posting: "A Quarter Cup of Cajun"

Diane Palmer
1st posting: Puerto Ricans: Minority Citizens or Immigrants?
2nd posting: Luck o' the Irish

Kim Pritchard
1st posting: The Metamorphoses of the Female Immigrant in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
2nd posting: Metamorphoses in Mukherjee's Jasmine, part 2

Katherine Rearick
1st posting: Naturalization: Requirements and Obstacles
2nd posting: Negotiating the US Immigration System: What Makes it so Difficult?

Wayne Reed
1st posting: How Children of Asian Immigrants Deal with Acculturation
2nd posting: Internal Adjustments Accompanying Children of Chinese Immigrants

Daniel Robison
1st posting: Asian-American Literature and Young Adults
2nd posting: South Asian Literature for Young Adults

Phil Thrash
1st posting: Pogroms: Some Effects on and Causes by the Dominant U. S. Culture
2nd posting: From Swastika to A Nation of Sheep via the “Culture Industry”