American Voices : Culture and Community

by Laguardia, Dolores; Guth, Hans Paul

• ISBN13: 9780072556001
• ISBN10: 0072556005
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This thematic reader focuses on contemporary American culture and offers over 120 provocative readings and images representing a broad range of genres and diverse authorial voices.

Table of Contents

* New to this edition

ORIENTATION: Reading, Thinking, and Writing

1. INITIATION: Growing Up American

* Ana Veciana-Suarez, A Place Where We Belong

Garrison Keillor, "Born among the Born Again"

Susan J. Miller, "My Father’s Other Life"

Mary Crow Dog, "Lakota Woman"

Sandra Cisneros, Mericans [short story]

Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship [poem]

FORUM: Bridging Two Cultures

Caroline Hwang, "The Good Daughter"

Nguyen Louie, "A Daughter’s Story" [student essay]

* Mara Joseph, On Being White [student essay]

Writing Workshop 1: Writing from Experience

2. LEARNING: School and Life

* Thessaly La Force, No Rest for the Overachiever Going to School in East L.A. [student editorial]

* Mike Rose, Going to School in East L.A.

* Michael J. Sandel, Marketers Are Storming the Schoolhouse

* Stanford Report, Electronic Communication May Aid Social Interaction [newsletter]

Nell Bernstein, Learning to Love

* Kenyatta Matthews, Black College in (White) America

Frank Chin, "Donald Duk and the White Monsters" [short story]

Louise Erdrich, The Runaways [poem]

FORUM: Free to Worship

Loretta Johnson, "Prayer Isn’t Always Allowed"

* Emily Lesk, My 60-Second Protest from the Hallway

* David G. Savage, Justices Allow Bible Classes

Writing Workshop 2: Writing from Interviews

3. NEW WORLD: Diversity and Community

Anna Quindlen, The Mosaic vs. the Myth

Cynthia Tucker, "Jefferson, Hemings Affair Can’t Be Denied"

Arturo Madrid, Diversity and Its Discontents

* Walter Kirn, Mormons: Walking a Mile in Their Shoes

Jeremiah Creedon, The Spiritually Diverse Society

Daniel J. Boorstin, "Why I Am Optimistic about America"

Janice Mirikitani, For My Father [poem]

FORUM: Redeeming Past Injustice

Matthew Kauffman, The Day the Slaves Got Their Way

Suzan Shown Harjo, I Won’t Be Celebrating Columbus Day

James P. Pinkerton, One More Salvo in Culture War [movie review]

Writing Workshop 3: Writing About Your Reading

4. OUTSIDERS: Other Voices

* Annie Downey, Is There Life after Welfare?

Amanda Coyne, "Mother’s Day in Federal Prison"

Nathan McCall, "Time"

* Andre Dubus, Why the Able-Bodied Still Don’t Get It

Ynestra King, "The Other Body: Disability and Identity Politics"

Toni Cade Bambara, "The Lesson" [short story]

Bethlyn Madison Webster, "Stamps" [poem]

FORUM: Disparity of Wealth

* Adair Lara, Class Struggle on the Refrigerator

Peter Rothberg, "Lockout!"

Ken Garcia, Obscenely High Payout to Departing Chief

* Molly Ivins, You Can’t Get By on Nickels and Dimes [book review]

Writing Workshop 4: Drawing Conclusions

5. IDENTITY: Rethinking Race

David Bernstein, "Mixed like Me"

Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"

Joe Gutierrez, "On the Job" [interviewówith Studs Terkel]

Miriam Schulman, "Affirmative Action or Negative Action"

Fox Butterfield, "Why They Excel"

Alice Walker, "Everyday Use" [short story]

* Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman [poem]

FORUM: Educating about Race

Richard Cohen, "Our Children Are Our Future¿Unfortunately They’re Bigots"

* Patricia Smith, The Tiny, Brown Professor

Joan Ryan, "Home Truths about Race"

Cynthia Tucker, "Double Standard on Drug Sentences"

Writing Workshop 5: Organizing Your Writing

6. CULTURE WARS: Constructing Gender

Nanette Asimov, Fewer Teen Girls Enrolling in Technology Classes

Ruth Connif, "The Joy of Women’s Sports"

Im Jung Kwuon, " Facing Down Abusers"

Robert Bly, "The Community of Men"

Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants" [short story]

Walt Whitman, "A Glimpse" [poem]

FORUM: Gay in America

Elizabeth Birch, A Day to Leave the Closet

William Bennett, "Love, Marriage, and the Law"

* Tammerlin Drummond, The Marrying Kind

* Elizabeth Bell, Teaching Tolerance Before Hate Takes Root

Writing Workshop 6: Comparing and Contrasting

7. MEDIA WATCH: Virtual Reality

* Amanda Fazzone, Game Over

* George de Stefano, Ungood Fellas

Jeanne Albronda Heaton and Nona Leigh Wilson, "Talk TV:Tuning In to Trouble"

* VISUAL: Virginia Slims Campaign

* Liz Smith, My Breakfast with Fergie

* Jean Bethke Elstain, "Diana and the Celebrity Culture"

Andrea Freud Loewenstein, Sister from Another Planet Probes the Soaps [satire]

Sharon Olds, "The Death of Marilyn Monroe" [poem]

FORUM: The Fencing in of Cyberspace

Adair Lara, On the Internet, We All Own a Press

* Rob Morse, Yes, Virginia, there Is a First Amendment

John Browning, The Internet Is Learning to Censor Itself

J.D. Lasica, Censorship Devices on the Internet

Jon Swartz, Push to Squash Spam

Writing Workshop 7: Weighing Alternatives

8. ROLE MODELS: The Search for Heroes

Arthur Ashe, A Black Athlete Looks at Education

John Seabrook, "E-Mail from Bill"

Mark Leiren-Young, Dream Catcher

David Popenoe, "The Decline of Fatherhood"

Ralph Ellison, "Mister Toussan" [short story]

Judy Grahn, "Nadine, Resting on Her Neighbor’s Stoop" [poem]

FORUM: The American Dream

Andrew Delbanco, The Autobiography of Billy Graham [book review]

Leslie Gornstein, The Digital Amazon

* Gloria Steinem, Hillary in the Crossfire

Writing Workshop 8: Arguing from Principle

9. LANGUAGE: From Bond to Barrier and Back

Deborah Tannen, "Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers"

Amoja Three Rivers, "Cultural Etiquette: A Guide"

* Andrew Brownstein, A Battle over a Name in the Land of the Sioux

Jorge R. Mancillas, "Bilingualism: Assimilation is More Than ABCs"

Roger Angell, "Return of the Cliché Expert"

August Wilson, "How Avery Got to Be a Preacher" (from Piano Lesson) [drama]

John Heaviside, "A Gathering of Deafs" [poem]

FORUM: Language and Social Class

Mark Francis Cohen, "Small Tawk"

Toni Cook, "Ebonics: Opening Pandora’s Box" [interview]

Angelo Figueroa, "Ebonics Plan Is Worth a Listen"

Writing Workshop 9: Writing to Define

10. VIOLENCE: Living at Risk

* Ben Fox, Friends Knew Alleged Gunman’s Plans [news story]

Bruce Shapiro, "The Violent Politics of Crime"

Linda M. Hasselstrom, "A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun"

Fred Barbasch, Beyond the Finger Pointing

* Tobias Wolff, White Man

Luis Valdez, The Buck Private (Soldado Razo) [play]

Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Boy Died in My Alley" [poem]

FORUM: Tough on Crime

* Nathan Glazer, The Broken Window Theory

Emery P. Dalesio, "No Indictment in Shoplifter’s Death"

Steven Musil, "Emotions Clouding Rational Decisions" [student editorial]

Families to Amend Three Strikes, "A Threat to Justice"

Writing Workshop 10: Writing to Persuade

11. ECOLOGY: Saving the Planet

* Amy Blackmar, Alligator Country: The Eyes of Night

Marie de Santis, "The Last of the Wild Salmon"

John Vidal, "Hearts of Oak"

Deborah Blum, "The Monkey Wars"

* Margaret Atwood, Dreams of the Animals [poem]

FORUM: The Endangered Ecosphere

Molly Ivins, "Don’t Mention Global Warming"

Charles Krauthammer, "Saving Nature, But Only for Man"

Mark Sagoff, "Feeding Ten Billion People"

Writing Workshop 11: The Investigative Writer

12. TOMORROWS: The Shape of the Future

* James Q. Wilson, In Praise of Asphalt Nation

Jon Carroll, "New Splash in Vegas"

Mark Frankel, "Candid Camera: Corporate Snooping 101"

Jerome P. Kassirer, Federal Foolishness and Mariguana

Elinor Burkett, The Last Abortion

Randall Sullivan, "Violence as Fun"

FORUM: Terror Invades America

* VISUAL: It Happened Here

* David Grann, Manhattan Dispatch

* Paul Berman, Under the Bridge

* Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Babi Yar in Manhattan

* Ken Garcia, America’s Wealth Draws Hatred

* Ellen Goodman, Prime Target is Women

* Joan Ryan, Focus on the Real Terror

Writing Workshop 12: The Documented Paper