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Sixto Lopez (Filipino)




"The Philippine Problem: A Proposition for a Solution"

Themes: Imperialism, Independence, Assimilation




"There has never been any dispute or objection, as far as the Filipinos are concerned, as to what form of government they are prepared to temporarily accept...Yet the Filipinos accepted it with a full knowledge of its horror and sacrifices in life and property which they knew they would be called upon to make"




"Every fair-minded man will see, and many will admit, that the Filipinos have never been treated as though they were human beings possessing rights and aspirations of their own. They have been required to submit to American authority without a promise or guarantee that the question of final independence would ever be discussed"




"...American rule would be neither as good nor suitable for the Filipinos as their own rule"

Emma Yule (Filipino)




"The Woman Question in the Philippines"

Themes: Women Rights, Assimilation, Breaking Stigmas




"...between the dainty kimono maiden of Japan and the veiled lady of India and alongside of the 'lily-footed' dame of China is the woman of the Philippines, a woman unique in the orient"




"...the Philippine woman among oriental women must very largely be attributed to the fact that she is the only eastern mother who teaches 'Our Father' to her little ones"




"...one may make the assertion and be far within the bounds of truth, that woman outranks man in Las Islas Filipinas"




"The Filipino woman as a militant is advance of the country's onward march"





Jose Marti (Cuban)




"Our America"

Theme: Political freedom, Independence, Human as a Race, National Preservation




"There can be no racial hate, because there are no races. The feeble thinkers, the detached thinkers, rattle off and reheat library-collected races...within a triumphant love and turbulent hunger for life, is the universal identity of man."




"We can no longer be the people of leaves in air...or thrashed and uprooted by the tempests: the trees must close ranks and keep the overdeveloped giant from passing! It is time to review the lines and march united."




"Natural men have defeated the artificial men...The battle is not between barbarism and civilization, but between false erudition and Nature."

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (African Am.)




"Learning to Read"

Themes: Education, Black Rights




"Our masters always tried to hide/ Book learning from our eyes;/ Knowledge didn't agree with slavery--/ 'Twould make us all too wise"




"And I longed to read my Bible/For precious words it said;/ But when I begun to learn it,/Folks just shook their heads"




"And never stopped till I could read/The hymns and Testament"

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (African Am.)




"The Goophered Grapevine"

Themes: Insider vs. Outsider, Progress, Voice of African Am., Voodoo culture




"'Do you know anything about the time when this vineyard was cultivated?'


'Lawd bless you, suh I knows all about it...ole Julius McAdoo 'uz bawn en raise' on dis yer same plantation'"




"'Is that story true?' asked Annie doubtfully, but seriously, as the old man concluded his narrative."




"This accounted for his advice to me not to buy the vineyard...the wages I paid him for his services as coachman, for I gave him employment in that capacity"





Mary Antin




The Promised Land *underlined

Themes: Education, Assimilation, Immigrant Life, Urban Life, Nationalism




"The well-versed metropolitan knows the slums as a sort of house of detention for poor aliens, where they live on probation till they can show a certificate of good citizenship"




"To most people their first day of school is a memorable occasion. In my case the importance of the day was a hundred times magnified, on account of the years I had waited, the road I had come, and the conscience ambitions I entertained."




"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them...As for the children themselves, he knew no surer way to their advancement and happiness."




"I think she divined that by the simple act of delivering our school certificates to her he took possession of America



Winnifred Eaton (Chinese Can.)




"A Half Caste"

Themes: Rejecting Exoticism,Intermixing, Preservation of self




"...I will not dance for the foreign devil!"




"'How old are you?'"... 'Twenty-two.'...'You look like a child.'"





Corridos




"Kansas 1" and "Gregorio Cortez"

Themes: Mexican Pride, Cowboy lifestyle




"Then said Gregorio Cortez, with his soul aflame,/'I don't regret having killed him; self-defense is permitted'"




"Then said Gregorio Cortez, with a pistol in his hand, "Don't run, you cowardly rinches, from a single Mexican.'"





Maria Ruiz De Burton (Mexican Am.)




The Squatter and the Don *underlined

Themes: Insider vs Outsider, Rural Life




"You are too good business men to suppose that I should not reserve some slight advantage for myself, when I am willing you should have many more yourselves"




"'You speak very good English, Senor. We understand you perfectly. You do not require an interpreter"

Mary Austin




Earth Horizon *underlined

Themes:

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (African Am)




"Talma Gordon"

Themes: Tragic Mulatto, Murder, Female Rights




"'My mother’s daughter’ demands an explanation from you, sir, of the meaning of the monstrous injustice that you have always practiced toward my sister and me.'"




"'God! Doctor, but this is too much. I could stand the stigma of murder, but add to that the pollution of Negro blood! No man is brave enough to face such a situation.'"







Upton Sinclair




The Jungle *underlined

Themes: Immigration, Urban Life, Expose of Food/Factory industry




"It was a nasty job killing these, for when youplunged your knife into them they would burst and splash foul smelling stuffinto your face; and when a man’s sleeves were smeared with blood and his handssteeped in it, how was he ever to wipe his face, or to clear his eyes so thathe could see?”

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman




"A New England Nun"

Themes: Female life outside of marriage, sexuality, Freedom




"There was a little rush, and the clank of a chain, and a large yellow-and-white dog appeared at the door of his tiny hut, which was half hidden among the tall grasses and flowers"






"Finally she rose and changed the position of the books...That was the way they had been arranged in the first place"




"Her life...had been full of a pleasant peace, she never felt discontented nor impatient over her lover's absence...she had fallen into a way of placing it so far in the future that it was almost equal to placing it over the boundaries of another life"




"If Lousia Ellis had sold her birthright she did not know it, the taste of the pottage was delicious, and had been her sole satisfaction for so long. Serenity and placid narrowness had become to her as the birthright itself"

Sarah Orne Jewett




A White Heron *underlined

Themes: Rite of Passage, Rural Life, Preservation of Nature




“She crept out along the swaying oak limb atlast, and took the daring step across the old pine-tree. The way was harderthan she thought; she must read far and hold fast.”




"She was not often in the woods so late as this, and it made her feel as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the morning leaves"




"...when the thorny bough was past, and she stood trembling and tired but triumphant, high in the treetop"




"...she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air...and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron's secret and give its life away"





Sarah Winnemucca




Life among the Piutes *underlined

Themes: White Man Invasion,




“I was a very small child when the first whitepeople came into our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion,and have continued so ever since, and I have never forgotten their firstcoming.”





Standing Bear




"What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me until Dark"

Theme: N.A. Civil Rights, Misplacement, White Man Invasion




“If men want to trade, they say, How much do you want for that piece of property? What price do you put upon it? But nothing of that kind was said; they came and took me away without saying a word.”




"You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more"




"...I have not wished to give even part of it to the Great Father. Though he were to give me a million dollars I would not give him the land."

Gertrude Bonnin (Native Am.)




"Why I Am a Pagan"

Theme: Spirituality, Nature, Anti-Assimilation




“A wee child toddling in a wonder world, Iprefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice ofthe Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mightywaters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then atpresent, at least, I am a Pagan.”




"With the strong, happy sense that both great and small are so surely enfolded in His magnitude that, without a miss, each has his allotted individual ground opportunities, I am buoyant with good nature."

Sitting Bull (Native Am.)




"Keeping Treaties"

Theme: White Man Invasion, Policies, N.A. Pride




"What white man can say I ever stole his lands or a penny of his money?...What white woman, however lonely, was ever when a captive insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian"

Palaneapope (Native Am.)




"How the Indians are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers"

Theme:

Charles Eastman (Native Am)




The Soul of the Indian *underline

Theme:

Ghost Dance Songs

Theme:




“The yellow-hide, the white skinI have now put him aside –I have now put him aside –I have no more sympathy with him”

Stephen Crane




"The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky"

Theme:Violence, Gender





Jack London




"South of the Slot"

Theme: Naturalism, Class distinction, Id vs Super Ego





Mark Twain




"Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog"

Theme: