Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1: Cultural identity: Who are we? The nature of cultural identity / Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester
  • Of endearment and other terms of address: a Mexican perspective / Patricia Covarrubias
  • My name is; Neither lost nor found / Mei Lin Kroll
  • 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; Lessons learned: a university administrator's intercultural journey / Alfred J. Guillaume, Jr.
  • pt. 2: Crossing cultures: negotiating intercultural competence. Cultural patterns and intercultural competence / Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester
  • The shower / Thomas M. Steinfatt
  • By way of introduction: an American and Finnish dialogue / Donal Carbaugh and Saila Poutiainen
  • Acculturation in a foreign land / Zhong Wang and Rui Shen
  • "This is the way things are!" : Making sense of gender roles in cultures / Rona Tamiko Halualani
  • Roast mutton, fry bread, and tilt-a-whirls: cultural and intercultural contact in the Navajo Nation Fair / Charles A. Braithwaite
  • Cultural problems and intercultural growth: my American journey / Peter O. Nwosu
  • Living in paradise: an inside look at the Micronesian culture; Living interculturally: confessions of a Menwai Nonoh / Vicki Marie
  • pt. 3: Othering: racism and prejudice amongUS. Cultural biases and intercultural communication / Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester
  • Finding one's self in the margins / Chevelle Newsome
  • The holocaust and its lessons: a survivor's story / Elane Norych Geller
  • Living the American dream / Juan C. Gonzalez
  • Black as we wanna be: from identity politics to intercultural competence / Mark Lawrence McPhail and Karen Lynette Dace
  • Friends and partners / Ann M. Bohara and Patrick McLaurin
  • Leonard's yard: pulling at the roots and responsibilities of my whiteness / Gale Young
  • Tears in the archive: creating memory to survive and to contest empire / S. Lily Mendoza
  • pt. 4: Inside / outside: belonging to multiple cultures. On becoming intercultural / Young Yun Kim
  • On becoming "American"; On living in between / Tadasu "Todd" Imahori
  • La Güera / Keturah A. Dunne
  • The search for cultural identity by a Chinese American professional woman / Amy Qiaoming Liu
  • From silk route to Route 66: my American journey / Mohammad H. Qayoumi
  • "Both-And" and "Neither-Nor": my intercultural experiences / Ringo Ma
  • dual_consiousness@USAmerican.white.male / William J. Starosta.