introduction, organization

i. issues and backgrounds : who is "we, the people"? what constitutes an american nation? explicit / implicit inclusions / exclusions, border-drawings

ii. "facts". demographic changes since 1900 : old, new and "new new" immigration and immigration reform; internal migrations.

iii. multicultural politics in a global age : politics of the census, affirmative action, bilingualism, cultural nationalism.

iii. (continued) richard rodríguez hunger of memory (1982)

iv. "interpretations". forms of identity construction in a multicultural situation : between margin and center, between diasporas and subcultures; liminality and hybridity, gendered identities.

(v.) latin american perspectives

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theater. luis valdez early works (1965-1967). miguel piñero the sun always shines for the cool (1977)

poetry. tato laviera. amerícan (1985)

gloria anzaldúa borderlands / la frontera (1987)

cuban theater. gonzalez pando the great american justice game.

brand new memory?