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| New readings are marked with an asterisk | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction: How to Read and Write Critically | |
| What Is Critical Thinking? | |
| Why Read Critically? | |
| How to Read Critically | |
| Sample Essay for Analysis: ""Now, Cut that Out!," | |
| What is Critical Writing? | |
| Approaching Visuals Critically | |
| Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project | |
| The Media Assault on Male Body Image | |
| Never Too Buff | |
| Culture Shock: Superheroes | |
| What I Think About the Fashion World | |
| Culture Shock: Get Real | |
| The Natural Beauty Myth | |
| Weighing In | |
| My Hips, My Caderas | |
| Reading the Blog: Eating Disorders: The Numbers | |
| Weight of the World | |
| Viewpoints: A Man's Guide to Slimming Couture, Scott McKeon; Why Do We Get to Laugh at Fat Guys? | |
| Culture Shock: Norbit | |
| Consumer Nation: Wanting It, Selling It | |
| Shop 'til We Drop? | |
| Targeting a New World | |
| What's Wrong with Cinderella? | |
| Culture Shock: Sphere of Influence: Television Commercials | |
| Lunchbox Hegemony | |
| A Brand by Any Other Name | |
| Culture Shock: Branding | |
| Branded World: The Success of the Nike Logo | |
| Culture Shock: A Portfolio of Advertisements | |
| Lux Populi | |
| Viewpoints: With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz; The Language of Advertising | |
| It's All Relative: The American Family in Flux | |
| Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy | |
| Numbers Drop for the Married-with-Children | |
| The Decline of Marriage | |
| Culture Shock Marriage Trends in the United States | |
| For Better, for Worse | |
| The Cultural Devaluation of Child-Rearing | |
| Culture Shock: God-Ordained Marriage | |
| Did I Miss Something? | |
| A New Generation Is Leading the Way | |
| Viewpoints: Why the "M" Word Matters to Me | |
| The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage | |
| Culture Shock: Gay Marriage | |
| Reading the Blog: A really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other | |
| Remote Control: Television's Influence | |
| Can TV Improve Us? | |
| Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor | |
| Overexposure of Violence in Our Society | |
| Culture Shock: Turn Off Your TV Week | |
| The Myth of Media Violence | |
| TV's War of Words | |
| Born Again | |
| The Great TV Debate | |
| Three Cheers for Reality TV | |
| The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless | |
| Viewpoints: AAP Discourages Television for Very Young Children, American Academy of Pediatrics; TV Can Be a Good Parent | |
| Climate Control? The Global Warming Debate | |
| Global Warming: Who Loses-and Who Wins? | |
| Global Warming Is an Immediate Crisis | |
| Culture Shock: An Inconvenient Truth | |
| Don't Believe the Hype | |
| Reading the Blog: Please Stop Talking about the Global Warming Consensus | |
| Global Warming Heats Up | |
| Culture Shock: Earth's Before and After Pics | |
| Viewpoints: No Change in Political Climate, Ellen Goodman; On Comparing Global Warming Denial to Holocaust Denial | |
| Sexual Politics: Diving into the Gender Gap | |
| My Most Attractive Adversary | |
| Male Bashing on TV | |
| Culture Shock: Men's Fault Magazine | |
| The Men We Carry in Our Minds | |
| Girls, We Really Are Our Own Worst Enemies | |
| In Search of Notorious PhDs | |
| Culture Shock: 50 Cent | |
| The End of History | |
| Reading the Blog: A Thursday Musing on Anti-Feminist Young Women | |
| The Science of Difference | |
| An Identity Reduced to a Burka | |
| Viewpoints: Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood, Louise Story; Homeward Bound, Linda Hirshman; The Year of Domesticity | |
| The University System: Are We Making the Grade? | |
| How to Get a College Education | |
| A's for Everyone! | |
| Culture Shock: Drinking Cartoon | |
| Would Shakespeare Get into Swarthmore? | |
| America's Top University | |
| College Makeover | |
| Who Should Get into College? | |
| What's Wrong with Vocational School? | |
| Higher Ed, Inc. | |
| A Real Education | |
| Reading the Blog: Does College Matter? | |
| Viewpoints: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, Charles R. Lawrence III; Muzzling Free Speech | |
| Race and Racism: Can We Be Color-Blind? | |
| Inequality, Race, and Remedy | |
| People Like Us | |
| Culture Shock: Class and Race in America: The Legacy of Hurricane Katrina | |
| Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV? | |
| Racial Profiling Goes Beyond Black and White | |
| In Defense of 24 | |
| Please Ask Me "Who," Not "What" I Am | |
| Getting Under My Skin | |
| Why I'm Black, Not African American | |
| Viewpoints: You Have the Right to Remain a Target of Racial Profiling, Eugene Robinson; The Racial Profiling Myth Lives On | |
| The Immigration Debate: No More Melting Pot? | |
| Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot | |
| Do We Want Mexifornia? | |
| Culture Shock: Immigrant Children | |
| Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants? | |
| Reading the Blog: Immigration Issue Explodes | |
| Educating Illegal Immigrants | |
| Immigration Quotas vs. Individual Rights: The Moral and Practical Case for Open Immigration | |
| Culture Shock: U.S. Census Map | |
| The Next Americans | |
| Viewpoints: A Nation Divided by One Language | |
| My Spanish Standoff | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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