Preface.
Prologue.
I. CULTURAL IDENTITY: WHO ARE WE?
The Nature of Cultural Identity, Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester.
Of Endearment and Other Terms: A Mexican Perspective, Patricia Covarrubias.
My Name Is. . . , Mei Lin Swanson Kroll.
Something to Tell You, Michael John Lewis.
“To Pass or Not to Pass, That is the Question”: Jewish Cultural Identity in the United States, Samuel M. Edelman.
To Be American, Black, Catholic, and Creole, Alfred J. Guillame, Jr.
In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility, Wen Shu Lee.
II. INSIDE/OUTSIDE: BELONGING TO MULTIPLE CULTURES.
On Becoming Intercultural, Young Yun Kim.
On Becoming “American”, Todd Imahori.
La Güera, Keturah A. Dunne.
Cultural Problems and Intercultural Growth: My American Journey, Peter O. Nwosu.
Finding One's Self in the Margins, Chevelle Newsome.
“Both-And” and “Neither-Nor”: My Intercultural Experiences, Ringo Ma.
dual-conscousness@USAmerican.white.male, William J. Starosta.
III. OTHERING: RACISM AND PREJUDICE AMONGUS.
Cultural Biases and Intercultural Communication, Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester.
Why Can't They Just Get Over It?, Richard Morris, John Sanchez, and Mary E. Stuckey.
Black as We Wanna Be: From Identity Politics to Intercultural Competence, Mark Mcphail, and Karen Lynette Dace.
Pulling at the Roots and Responsibilities of My Whiteness, Gale Young.
The Holocaust and Its Lessons: A Survivor's Story, Elane Geller.
Friends and Partners, Ann M. Bohara and Patrick McLauren.
IV. CROSSING CULTURES: NEGOTIATING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE.
Negotiating Intercultural Competence, Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester.
By Way of Introduction: An American and Finnish Dialogue, Donal Carbaugh and Saila Poutiain.
Acculturation in a Foreign Land, Zhong Wang and Rui Shen.
Tales from Thailand: Lessons from the Land of Smile, Thomas J. Knutson.
Roast Mutton, Fly Bread, and Tilt-a-Whirls: Cultural and Intercultural Contact at the Navajo Nation Fair, Charles A. Braithwaite.
Adventures in Paradise: An Inside Look at the Micronesian Culture, Vickie Marie.
The Shower, Thomas M. Steinfatt.
About the Authors.
