ABSTRACT
In an analogous way, American literature must become more pluralistic. The Task Force noted, "American literature anthologies today give students only a skewed and deceptive portrait of American life and letters". They suggested that if teachers, administrators, and publishers act to change these anthologies into "texts that accurately portray the multi-ethnic literary and cultural history of this country" students would "at the very least" be allowed to deal with "the raw materials of truth". After wide reading of novels by members of these New Immigrant groups, the author's field of study was narrowed to five authors. Some ethnic authors of both Old and New Immigration wrote about identity and of their own group interacting internally and with the society at large. The five include Michael DeCapite and Jerre Mangione, who are of Italian origin; Thomas Bell who was of Slovak origin; Vera Lebedeff, a Russian; and Ben Field a Russian Jew.
