Critical Inquiries Readings on Culture and Community

by Royster, Jacqueline Jones

• ISBN13: 9780321015860
• ISBN10: 032101586X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Critical Inquiries intends to spark discussion and response with seven focused explorations of cultural themes that provide contexts and occasions for college writers to develop a stance and voice. Edited by noted composition scholar Jacqueline Jones Royster,Critical Inquiries, unlike many readers, does not attempt to present a "balanced perspective." Instead, each of the seven major topicsidentity, home, nation, immigration, education, health, and technologyis framed by a sequence of readings that disrupt and unsettle conventional thinking. Students are challenged to move beyond simplistic pro-con argumentation to explore connections between personal and public life in their own essays and responses. Readings inCritical Inquiriesinclude historical as well as contemporary voices, going beyond traditional essays to include poems, letters, position and policy statements, and literary nonfiction. This multi-genre approach brings issues of language awareness and rhetorical strategy to the forefront, offering students a rich engagement with the deliberate choices made by responsible writers.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	xi
Introduction: A Framework for Rhetorical Decision Making	1	(6)
1 Claiming Identity	7	(54)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	9	(13)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"	9	(13)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	22	(25)
MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ, from Life As We Know It	22	(7)
SHOBA NARAYAN, "The God of Small Feasts"	29	(4)
MAYA ANGELOU, "Phenomenal Woman"	33	(3)
SANDRA CISNEROS, "Eleven"	36	(3)
MYRA VANDERPOOL GORMLEY, "Genealogy: Quacks, Cures, and Ancestors"	39	(3)
REBECCA WALKER, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self	42	(5)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	47	(11)
STUDS TERKEL, "C.P. Ellis"	47	(11)
INQUIRY: WHO AM I?	58	(3)
2 A Place Called "Home"	61	(64)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	63	(14)
BELL HOOKS, "homeplace"	63	(8)
BARRY LOPEZ, "Landscape and Narrative"	71	(6)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	77	(30)
PAULA GUNN ALLEN, "Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins"	77	(2)
BARBARA KINGSOLVER, "The Memory Place"	79	(7)
LUCI TAPAHANSO, "Just Past Shiprock"	86	(2)
CARL SANDBURG, "Chicago"	88	(2)
JAMAICA KINCAID, "A Small Place"	90	(5)
TONY EARLEY, "The Quare Gene"	95	(6)
TONI MORRISON, from Jazz	101	(6)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	107	(15)
RACHEL CARSON, "The Obligation to Endure"	107	(6)
DAVID FOREMAN, "Putting the Earth First"	113	(9)
INQUIRY: WHAT IS HOME?	122	(3)
3 We, the People	125	(74)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	127	(9)
J. HECTOR ST. JEAN DE CREVECOEUR, "What Is an American?"	127	(4)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"	131	(5)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	136	(37)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, "The Declaration of Independence"	136	(4)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON WITH LUCRETIA MOTT, "1848 Declaration of Sentiments"	140	(3)
TOM HAYDEN-STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, "The Port Huron Statement"	143	(12)
COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE, "A Black Feminist Statement"	155	(8)
WALT WHITMAN, "I Hear America Singing"	163	(2)
LANGSTON HUGHES, "I, Too, Sing America"	165	(1)
CLAUDE MCKAY, "America"	166	(1)
ARLENE MESTAS, "My Name Is..."	167	(1)
MARY CROW DOG, "Lakota Woman"	168	(5)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	173	(23)
DIEGO CASTELLANOS, "A Polyglot Nation"	173	(5)
SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH, "Why No Official Tongue?"	178	(11)
BILL PIATT, "The Confusing State of Minority Language Rights"	189	(7)
INQUIRY: HOW DOES A NATION SHAPED BY DIVERSE HISTORIES AND CULTURES FORGE A SENSE OF ITSELF AS A PEOPLE?	196	(3)
4 Migration, Immigration, Nation	199	(92)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	201	(22)
BARBARA VOBEJDA, "The Changing Face of America"	201	(10)
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, "The Laws"	211	(6)
JUNE JORDAN, "For My American Family: A Belated Tribute to a Legacy of Gifted Intelligence and Guts"	217	(6)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	223	(47)
EMMA LAZARUS, "The New Colossus,"	223	(1)
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, "The Unguarded Gates"	224	(1)
FRIEDRICH LEIPZIG, Ellis Island Interviews: Germany	225	(7)
MONICA (ITOI) SONE, "Kazuko Itoi: A Nisei Daughter's Story, 1925-1942"	232	(20)
ABENA BUSIA, "Migrations"	252	(1)
SAMANTHA DUNAWAY, "Melting into Canaan"	253	(4)
DUDLEY RANDALL, "The Melting Pot"	257	(1)
ELIZABETH SMITH DIXON GEER, "Overland Diary, 1847"	258	(4)
MARY JANE MEGQUIER, "Letter to Her Daughter"	262	(1)
LILLIAN SCHLISSEL, "The Later Journeys, 1856-1867"	263	(7)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	270	(18)
CARLOS BULOSAN, "My Education"	270	(5)
GLORIA ANZALDUA, "The Homeland, Aztlan"	275	(13)
INQUIRY: WHAT ARE THE BOUNDARIES OF OUR NATION? WHAT PATTERNS OF MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION HAVE REDRAWN THEM?	288	(3)
5 Education Matters	291	(312)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	293	(20)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "The American Scholar"	293	(15)
NIKKY FINNEY, "Fishing Among the Learned"	308	(5)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	313	(51)
DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER, "Analogy As the Core of Cognition"	313	(11)
SHERMAN ALEXIE, "Indian Education"	324	(5)
BELL HOOKS, "Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class"	329	(8)
KENNETH S. STERN, "Battling Bigotry on Campus"	337	(12)
JUDY SCALES-TRENT, "Affirmative Action and Stigma: The Education of a Professor"	349	(6)
TIM WISE, "Blinded by the White: Crime, Race, and Denial in America"	355	(5)
JOHN GEHRING, "Not Enough Girls"	360	(4)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	364	(19)
GEORGE W. BUSH, "Transforming the Federal Role in Education so That No Child Is Left Behind"	364	(5)
JONATHAN KOZOL, "Other People's Children: North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago"	369	(14)
INQUIRY: HOW DOES A NATION MAKE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY A CONCRETE POSSIBILITY FOR ALL?	383	(2)
6 Our Bodies, Our Selves'	385	(116)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	387	(2)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, "What Are the Leading Health Indicators?"	387	(2)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	389	(94)
LINDA HOGAN, "The Alchemists"	389	(2)
DAVID BARTON SMITH, "Race and Health Care in the United States"	391	(17)
BRETT SILVERSTEIN AND DEBORAH PERLICK, "The Disease of Young Women"	408	(15)
KIM CHERNIN, "Confessions of an Eater"	423	(12)
KARL MENNINGER, "Dear Dr. Menninger"	435	(5)
OLIVER SACKS, "Hands"	440	(6)
AUDRE LORDE, from The Cancer Journals	446	(6)
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women"	452	(7)
RAE LEWIS-THORNTON, "Facing AIDS"	459	(5)
NELS P. HIGHBERG, "What I Did on My Summer Vacation"	464	(3)
MICHAEL LASSELL, "How to Watch Your Brother Die"	467	(3)
SARAH SCHULMAN, "AIDS and the Responsibility of the Writer"	470	(3)
ELLIOT N. DORFF, "Visiting the Sick"	473	(10)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	483	(15)
GEORGE W. BUSH, "Stem-Cell Speech"	483	(4)
LAURIE GARRETT, "The Coming Plague"	487	(11)
INQUIRY: HOW DOES AN INDIVIDUAL'S PERSONAL STATE OF HEALTH BECOME AN ISSUE FOR PUBLIC DECISION MAKING?	498	(3)
7 Digital Frontiers	501	(102)
FRAMING THE TOPIC	503	(22)
BONNIE A. NARDI AND VICKI L. O'DAY, "Framing Conversations about Technology"	503	(10)
PAUL DE PALMA, "http://www.when_is_enough_enough?.com"	513	(12)
READINGS FOR INQUIRY AND EXPLORATION	525	(63)
SHERRY TURKLE, "Identity in the Age of the Internet"	525	(13)
ELLEN ULLMAN, "Space Is Numeric"	538	(8)
JOHN HOCKENBERRY, "The Next Brainiacs"	546	(3)
SUSAN MCCARTHY, "The Good Deed"	549	(10)
LAURA GURAK, "'Is This the Party to Whom I Am Speaking?': Women, Credibility, and the Internet"	559	(6)
LAURA MILLER, "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier"	565	(7)
JEREMY RIFKIN, "Commodifying Human Relationships"	572	(16)
CALLS TO ACTION AND RESPONSE	588	(14)
JON KATZ, "The Digital Citizen"	588	(11)
LOGAN HILL, "Racial Digital Divide"	599	(3)
INQUIRY: HOW DOES TECHNOLOGY AFFECT OUR WAYS OF OPERATING AS CITIZENS?	602	(1)
Credits	603	(4)
Index	607