Introduction / Robert Coles
Mother to Son / Langston Hughes
From White Mule / William Carlos Williams
From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith
From The House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros
Big Boy / Jesse Hill Ford
From Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
Question of Class / Dorothy Allison
Who Will Speak for Lizzy? / Danielle Joseph
From City Kids, City Teachers / Edited by Deborah Stern
From The Beat Within / Love Sihloh and Young Tay B2 / Anonymous
Indian Education / Sherman Alexie
Mother and Daughter / Gary Soto
From Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear / Robert Coles
Grammar of Silk / Cathy Song
Cannery Town in August / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Night Shift at St. Regis / Luis J. Rodriguez
Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year / Raymond Carver
From Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Doing What It Takes to Survive / Dean Torres
From Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / Mildred Taylor
Ghost of Fred Astaire / Sylvia Watanabe
Full Circle / Lori Arviso Alvord
From Children of Crisis: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers / Robert Coles
Show and Tell / Andrew Lam.
