Considering Cultural Difference, A Longman Topics Reader

by Uchmanowicz, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780321115812
• ISBN10: 0321115813
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-25
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Part of the "Longman Topics" reader series,Considering Cultural Differencefeatures multiethnic writing from contemporary U.S. authors centered around issues of ritual, representation, and rights. This brief collection of readings examines cultural identity and difference with respect to race, class, gender, and nationality. Thought-provoking selections ask students to think about timely and relevant issues: integration in schools; affirmative action in the workplace, women in sports; living in a multilingual society. Three main sites of cultural difference are addressed: Ritual, Representation, and Rights, each divided into two chapters of five or six essays apiece. Brief apparatus helps students write more thoughtfully in response to the selections. "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	x
Related Readings	xv
Preface	xvii
PART I Ritual	1	(78)
Introduction	1	(2)
Schooling	3	(35)
How Reading Changed My Life	3	(6)
Anna Quindlen
Alford J. Mapp	9	(5)
Nathan McCall
Pidgin Politics	14	(6)
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
The Circuit	20	(8)
Francisco Jimenez
Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl	28	(3)
Naomi Shihab Nye
The Next Ruling Class: Meet the Organization Kid	31	(7)
David Brooks
Sports	38	(41)
Trail Blazer
Hunki Yun
The Last Shot	42	(7)
Darcy Frey
The Best Pickup-Basketball Player in America	49	(6)
Timothy Harper
Throwing Like a Guy: The Mystique of Innate Ability	55	(5)
Colette Dowling
Title IX: Political Football	60	(7)
Ruth Conniff
The Shame of Boxing	67	(12)
Jack Newfield
Responding in Writing	76	(3)
PART II Representation	79	(80)
Introduction	79	(4)
Media	83	(34)
Smoke Signals in Context	83	(8)
Ward Churchill
I Want to Be Miss America	91	(7)
Julia Alvarez
Press Watch	98	(4)
Michael Massing
Huey Freeman: American Hero and Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks Illustration	102	(7)
John Nichols
Blinded by the White: Crime, Race, and Denial at Columbine High	109	(8)
Tim Wise
Visibility	117	(42)
Queering the Vast Wasteland	117	(6)
Michael Bronski
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	123	(7)
Peggy McIntosh
The New Intellectuals	130	(11)
Robert S. Boynton
A ``Hyphenated Perspective''	141	(3)
Ali Hossaini
Turning Point	144	(10)
Rudolph Chelminski
The Peters Projection World Map	154	(5)
Arno Peters
Responding in Writing	156	(3)
PART III Rights	159	(76)
Introduction	159	(2)
Language	161	(38)
The Paterson Public Library	161	(6)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Committee on CCCC Language Statement, Students' Right to Their Own Language	167	(9)
Mother Tongue	176	(8)
Amy Tan
Living in Tongues	184	(8)
Luc Sante
Should English Be the Law?	192	(7)
Robert King
Workplace	199	(36)
Affirmative Action and the Dilemma of the ``Qualified''	199	(10)
Ellis Cose
White-Collar Man in a Blue-Collar World	209	(4)
Bob Muldoon
The Foreman's Wallet	213	(2)
Martin Espada
Serving in Florida	215	(10)
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Insiders	225	(10)
Marc Peyser
Responding in Writing	233	(2)
Credits	235