Citizenship Now (A Longman Topics Reader)

by Ford, Jon; Ford, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780321117670
• ISBN10: 0321117670
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-23
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Part of the "Longman Topics" reader series,Citizenship Now examines the meaning of citizenship in our changing society and encourages student participation in revitalizing our communities>.This brief collection of readings focuses on the crucial role of the citizen in the democratic process. Thought-provoking selections ask students to think about timely and relevant issues: civil liberties vs. increased national security; consumerist values and environmental responsibility; immigration and the need for educational reform. Divided into five chapters, each features six or seven essays of varying lengths. Brief apparatus helps students write more thoughtfully in response to the selections and think more critically about their roles as citizens."Longman Topics" are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling topic. Featuring about 30 full-length selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	vii
Preface	xi
Citizenship and Diversity	1	(48)
Who and What Is American?	3	(12)
Lewis Lapham
A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One?	15	(4)
Anna Quindlen
I Have a Dream	19	(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hispanics and the American Dream	24	(6)
Linda Chavez
Should English Be the Law?	30	(8)
Robert D. King
Viet-Kieu	38	(11)
Andrew Pham
Extending the Theme	46	(3)
Education and Citizenship	49	(54)
Unequal Opportunity: Race and Education	51	(9)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education	60	(10)
bell hooks
The Common School and The Common Good	70	(9)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Educating a Democracy	79	(14)
Deborah Meier
Community Service	93	(10)
Robert Coles
Extending the Theme	101	(2)
Citizenship and Civil Liberties	103	(52)
Rights as a Check on Democracy	105	(5)
Alan Dershowitz
On Racist Speech	110	(6)
Charles R. Lawrence III
The Myth of Social Consensus	116	(15)
Sallie Tisdale
Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You)	131	(4)
Amitai Etzioni
Security Versus Civil Liberties	135	(4)
Richard A. Posner
Protecting Dr. King's Legacy: Justice and Liberty in the Wake of September 11th	139	(16)
Nadine Strossen
Extending the Theme	153	(2)
The Media and the Citizen	155	(52)
Pictures in Our Heads	157	(6)
Anthony Pratkanis
Elliot Aronson
Hate Radio	163	(9)
Patricia J. Williams
The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?	172	(6)
Cathleen A. Cleaver
Media, Literacy, and Democratic Citizenship	178	(11)
Jeffrey Scheuer
Independent Media Alternatives	189	(5)
David Barsamian
Rethinking Virtual Communities: The Prospects for the Public Sphere	194	(13)
Howard Rheingold
Extending the Theme	206	(1)
The Public Citizen	207	(50)
The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society	209	(6)
Cornel West
Civic Responsibility	215	(7)
Charles Derber
A Vision of the Quilt	222	(6)
Cleve Jones
Jeff Dawson
The Artist as Citizen	228	(9)
Barbra Streisand
A Match Made in Heaven	237	(5)
Suzanne Pharr
The Tyranny of the Majority	242	(15)
Lani Guinier
Extending the Theme	256	(1)
Credits	257