Proceedings 02

American Cultures: Assimilation and Multiculturalism

Editor: Elzbieta Oleksy

• Contents
• Elzbieta H. Oleksy – Preface
• Thomas S. Gladsky – I’m a 100% American and Don’t You Forget It: Stuart Dybek, Sarah Paretsky, and the New Ethnicity
• Irmina Wawrzyczek – Cultural Conditioning of Assimilation in Early Colonial America
• Zbigniew Mazur – The Practice of Ethnic Relations in Early Colonial Virginia: From Assimilation to Segregation
• Gloria Russo – Boston’s North End: A Historical Study of Assimilation and Multiculturalism in an Urban Neighborhood
• Andrzej Kopcewicz – Paul Auster’s Masquerades in City of Glass
• Elzbieta H. Oleksy – Eudora Welty’s Rondo: The Golden Apples
• Agata Preis-Smith – White Muses, Jewish Mothers, Black Women: Multiculturalism and Modern American Elegy
• Roy Goldblatt – Semitic Cinderellas: Mary Antin and Anzia Yezierska
• Jerzy Durczak – Alfred Kazin’s Divided Self
• Jerzy Kutnik – John Cage’s Zen Autobiography
• Andrea Bernard – The Ultimate Other: Black Representation in American Cinema
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index