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Subject: ETHNIC IDENTITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFRIKAN FLAG, by DEIDRA SUWANEE DEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she was a child
Last Line: Making them accept their blame
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Identity


BABBLING, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cabralism. The civiliation of the donees. The willing
Last Line: Dance. The vegatation. Brazilwood
Subject(s): Brazil; Ethnic Identity; History; Poetry And Poets


CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet
Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticker
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India


CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet
Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain
Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticke
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India


DO NOT BEAR MALICE TOWARD THE THATCH, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have killed a great animal with the mouth for me!
Last Line: One, do not bear malice toward agana, your father's son
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Igede (african People)


HUMAN MAP, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You will be happy to know someone has asked our cells to tell
Last Line: Our bodies' code will crack. They will have their map
Subject(s): Blood; Dna; Ethnic Identity; Science


KNOWING, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We furthest away from our african mother
Last Line: Our differences are our blessings
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Culture Conflict; Ethnic Identity; Women


LET'S PRESERVE IGEDE, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pay my respects to you, to start with
Last Line: I will speak my father's igede
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Igede (african People)


MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair
Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women


MOTHER TONGUES-III, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just think, all those tongues
Last Line: People of africa, were %standing upright
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Ethnic Identity; Poetry And Poets; Rwanda; U.s. - Race Relations


MY LAST NAME, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ever since school
Last Line: Foreign and free as the air
Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Ethnic Identity; Freedom; Slavery


NATIVE PRIDE, by ALICIA SWIMMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is something on my mind
Last Line: Or experience crazy horse's wrath
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Racism


NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red
Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given
Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel


RECOGNITION, by MIRIAM TEICHNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: So-you have 'recognized' the jew?
Last Line: "since, wisely, now you ""recognize"" the jew."
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict


REPUBLICANS THINK THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than they are. It's largely true
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Nature; Politics


RIDE TO THE WEDDING, by PHEBUS ETIENNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said goodbye to another piece of childhood
Last Line: I hid myself, as if defending what I am
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Growth; Tolerance


RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our fathers were dead and %our brothers were dying
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Despair; Ethnic Identity; Slavery


THANK YOU, by MICAH ICHEGBEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father of children, I welcome you
Last Line: This is our common home
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Gratitude; Igede (african People)


WAS YOU BORN HERE?, by LEIGH PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cause you don't talk like you
Last Line: You're from somewhere, aren't you?'
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Immigrants; Strangers


WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us
Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam.
Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


WHO KNOWS?, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh indian watching from the doorway
Last Line: Ah, my lord: who knows?
Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Incas; Peru


YOUR SOUL, by ALEJANDRO GUANES    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the eye is a mirror that reflects the soul, then the women
Last Line: Let me, in delirium, see your soul in a kiss!
Subject(s): Deception; Ethnic Identity; Paraguay; Women