Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Family Traditions
1. Life after Tercera – Virginia Coreia
2. Coming to Terms with My Heritage – Tanya Moldzinski
3. The Family History of a Fourth-Generation Pole – Sara Kindler
4. My Paternal Forebears – Michele Kitko
5. The Loss of My Family's Ethnic Ties and the Strengthening of Their American Identities – Rachel Koch
6. What's a Tyrolean? The Immigration of Mario Leonardi to America – Karen A. Gryga
7. Turetzky Family Assimilation: From Grandparents to Father to Me – Marc Turetzky
8. Changing Worlds: The Immigration Experiences of My Paternal Grandparents – Stephanie A. Courtney
9. Roots Paper – Raffi Ishkanian
10. A Family History – Bob Vaage
11. My Austrian-Italian Ethnicity – Susan Carnicelli
12. East Side Story: What West Side Story Left Out – Josephine Burgos
13. Three Generations in America – Gloria Genel
14. Where I Stand and Why – La Toya Powell
Part II: Our Parents, Ourselves
15. A Challenge of Loyalty – Lynn Sugamura
16. A Bicultural Experience – Shana R. Rivas
17. My Family History – Cecilia Pineda
18. Being an Other – Melissa Algranati
19. Discovering My Ethnic Roots – Sang-Hoon Kim
20. The Experiences of My Parents in Italy and America – Peter Bosco
21. Getting to Know My Parents So That I May Know Who I Am – Lizette Aguilar
22. Finding a Home – Ann Fenech
23. The Assimilation Problems of My Family in America – Soo Y. Kim
Part III: Ethnicity in Our Lives
24. The Oreo Cookie: Black on the Outside, White on the Inside – Cathy Thompson
25. Should I or Shouldn't I? – Jamie Dominguez
26. My Experience with Immigration/Assimilation in America – Catherine Tagudin
27. Leaving Home – Anh-Dao Nguyen
28. Being Indian in America: My Ethnic Roots and Me – Lila Shah
29. My Immigrant Experience – Vladimir Sinayuk
30. Triple Identity: My Experience as an Immigrant in America – Puwat Charukamnoetkanok
31. Two Poems – Rose Rameau
Afterword
Appendix: Sample Roots Paper Topic
Notes on Contributors
