Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Writing across Communities -- 2. Another 1981: From This Bridge Called My Back to Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras -- 3. Coming Out and Staying Home: Nice Jewish Girls and Home Girls -- 4. The Making and Unmaking of Asian American Identity: Making Waves and The Forbidden Stitch -- 5. (Un)Common Class Identities in the United States and Britain: Calling Home and The Common Thread -- 6. Around 1996: Re-Placing Identity Politics from the "Racial Paradise" of Hawai'i -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.