Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally Saturday, September 12 2009.

• Waking Up American includes original work by women who are either American-born of at least one foreign-born parent or who immigrated to the United States during childhood. The writers explore what it means to feel caught between two worlds—neither wholly American nor wholly a part of another heritage. Cultures represented include the Philippines, Germany, India, Mexico, China, Iran, Nicaragua, Japan, Russia, and Panama, among others, and are often juxtaposed with a bicultural reality, having been raised by parents who simultaneously embrace and question American values. Essays trace themes of rebellion and conformity, pride and uncertainty, sexuality and sense of self, and a heightened awareness of what it means to be "other." These narratives examine the part cultural identity plays in creating strong, independent, hyphenated American women whose experiences are part of what makes the United States the intriguing cultural amalgamation that so many diverse peoples are proud to call home.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally Friday, July 17 2009.

• MANGOES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN familiar to my lips, as if their nectar ran in my blood.