Books in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA) series

Aims to bring humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion. This work tells the story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. It paints a portrait of the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land.

Features poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, Gladys Casely Hayford and others. This work covers the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period's major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections.