Negotiating Difference : Cultural Case Studies for Composition

by Bizzell, Patricia; Herzberg, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780312068462
• ISBN10: 0312068468
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

A new kind of multicultural composition reader that focuses on contact zones historical moments when contending groups have negotiated across boundaries of race, class, gender, and ideology by offering 6 casebooks that explore conflicts in American history. Assignment sequences and research kits are included at the end of each unit.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction for Students	1	(8)
Unit One First Contacts between Puritans and Native Americans	9	(156)
Introduction	9	(10)
Dominant English Accounts	19	(66)
History of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1645)	19	(25)
William Bradford
Newes from America (1638)	44	(6)
John Underhill
A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England (1676)	50	(17)
Increase Mather
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)	67	(18)
Mary Rowlandson
Alternative English Accounts	85	(17)
Relation of the Pequot Wars (c.1660)	85	(8)
Lion Gardener
``A Relation of the Indian War'' (1675)	93	(9)
John Easton
Native American Accounts	102	(34)
Paper Left on a Bridge Post at Medfield, Massachusetts (1675)	102	(1)
Speech at the End of King Philip's War, Recorded and with a Reply by Daniel Gookin (1677)	103	(4)
Waban
Eulogy on King Philip	107	(29)
William Apess
Treaties, Laws, and Deeds	136	(17)
Treaty of Peace and Alliance between Massasoit and the Plymouth Colonists (1621)	136	(1)
Treaty of Hartford (1638)	137	(2)
Unrestricted Deed (1642)	139	(2)
Treaty of Submission (1644)	141	(2)
Rules for the Praying Indian Town of Concord, Massachusetts (1647)	143	(2)
Laws Pertaining to Indians, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1648)	145	(3)
Restricted Deed (1648)	148	(1)
Other Native American Fighters for the English in King Philip's War, Petition (1676)	149	(4)
Andrew Pittimee
Assignment Sequences	153	(6)
Research Kit	159	(6)
Unit Two The Debate over Slavery and the Declaration of Independence	165	(120)
Introduction	165	(9)
Jefferson's Views on Slavery	174	(15)
Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776)	174	(6)
Thomas Jefferson
Notes on Virginia (1788)	180	(9)
Thomas Jefferson
The Antislavery Battle	189	(50)
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)	189	(4)
Benjamin Banneker
Walker's Appeal (1829)	193	(7)
David Walker
An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall (1833)	200	(8)
Maria Stewart
``What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'' (1852)	208	(24)
Frederick Douglass
Address to the Court (1859)	232	(7)
Charles Langston
The Proslavery Defense	239	(21)
Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society (1854)	239	(5)
George Fitzhugh
Cotton Is King (1855)	244	(6)
David Christy
Liberty and Slavery (1857)	250	(10)
Albert Taylor Bledose
Proclamations and Public Statements	260	(16)
Manumission Paper (1776)	260	(1)
Jonathan Jackson
Petition on behalf of Massachusetts Slaves (1777)	261	(3)
Prince Hall
Rhode Island Resolution for the Formation of a Colored Regiment (1778)	264	(2)
Fourth of July Manumission Speech (1783)	266	(2)
Dr. Bloomfield
Petition Supporting Slavery (1785)	268	(2)
``Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention'' (1833)	270	(6)
William Lloyd Garrison
Assignment Sequences	276	(3)
Research Kit	279	(6)
Unit Three Defining ``Woman's Sphere'' in Nineteenth-Century American Society	285	(130)
Introduction	285	(9)
Circumscribing Woman's Sphere	294	(27)
A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1842)	294	(5)
Catharine Beecher
``Female Influence, and the True Christian Mode of Its Exercise'' (1837)	299	(3)
Jonathan F. Stearns
``Abolition Women'' (1837)	302	(3)
Albert A. Folsom
``Pastoral Letter'' (1837)	305	(2)
Massachusetts Congregationalist Clergy
``Enfranchisement of Women'' (1852)	307	(11)
Louisa Cheves Mccord
New York Hearld. ``The Woman's Rights Convention: The Last Act of the Drama'' (1852)	318	(3)
Contesting Woman's Sphere	321	(66)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (1838)	321	(10)
Sarah Grimke
``The Wrongs of American Women, the Duty of American Women'' (1845)	331	(7)
Margaret Fuller
Editorials on Women's Rights (1848, 1851)	338	(4)
Frederick Douglass
Recorded ``A'n't I a Woman?'' (1851)	342	(4)
Sojourner Truth
Frances D. Gage
``Woman'' (1855)	346	(11)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
``A Slave's Appeal'' (1860)	357	(14)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
``The Higher Education of Women'' (1892)	371	(16)
Anna Julia Cooper
Laws, Contracts, and Proclamations on Women's Rights	387	(18)
Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, ``Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions'' (1848)	387	(5)
New York State Married Women's Property Laws (1848, 1860)	392	(2)
Marriage Agreements: Robert Dale Owen and Mary Jane Robinson (1832); Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone (1855)	394	(3)
From the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868)	397	(1)
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870)	398	(1)
From Minor v. Happersett (1875)	399	(2)
Resolutions of the American Woman Suffrage Association Convention (1893)	401	(2)
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920)	403	(2)
Assignment Sequences	405	(4)
Research Kit	409	(6)
Unit Four Wealth, Work, and Class Conflict in the Industrial Age	415	(194)
Introduction	415	(11)
The Gospel of Wealth	426	(51)
Ragged Dick (1867)	426	(24)
Horatio Alger
``Wealth'' (1889)	450	(11)
Andrew Carnegie
The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him (1887)	461	(5)
William H. Councill
``Acres of Diamonds'' (1888-1915)	466	(11)
Russell H. Conwell
Critics of the Gospel of Wealth	477	(53)
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888)	477	(24)
Edward Bellamy
Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)	501	(10)
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Progress and Poverty (1879)	511	(19)
Henry George
Working Conditions	530	(71)
The Silent Partner (1871)	530	(23)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Testimony Before the Senate Committee on the Relations Between Capital and Labor (1883)	553	(1)
Samuel Gompers	553	(8)
John Hill	561	(3)
Timothy D. Stow	564	(3)
Charles F. Wingate	567	(6)
N. R. Fielding	573	(2)
John Roach	575	(6)
Joseph Medill	581	(3)
Robert S. Howard	584	(4)
Pages from a Worker's Life (1939)	588	(9)
William Z. Foster
Workingmen's Party of Illinois, ``Declaration of Independence'' (1876)	597	(4)
Assignment Sequences	601	(3)
Research Kit	604	(5)
Unit Five Japanese American Internment and the Problem of Cultural Identity	609	(186)
Introduction	609	(8)
Official Documents Establishing the Internment	617	(6)
Executive Order 9066 (1942)	617	(2)
Franklin Delano Roosevel
``Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry'' (1942)	619	(4)
John l. Dewitt
Opinions on the Japanese ``Threat''	623	(53)
The Japanese Conquest of American Opinion (1917)	623	(5)
Montaville Flowers
U.S. Department of War, from Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942 (1943)	628	(19)
Japanese American Citizens League, from the Case for the Nisei (1945?)	647	(14)
U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, from Personal Justice Denied (1982)	661	(15)
Testimony of the Interned	676	(111)
They Call me Moses Masaoka: An American Saga (1987)	676	(13)
Mike Masaoka
Bill Hosokawa
Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps (1976)	689	(26)
Michi Nishiura Weglyn
Farewell to Manzanar (1973)	715	(14)
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
James D. Houston
Oral History (1984)	729	(19)
Minoru Yasui
Nisei Daughter (1953)	748	(9)
Monica Sone
Farewell to Manaznar (1973)	757	(9)
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
James D. Houston
No-No Boy (1957)	766	(13)
John Okada
``A Fire in Fontana'' (1985)	779	(8)
Hisaye Yamamoto
Assignment Sequences	787	(3)
Research Kit	790	(5)
Unit Six Policy and Protest over the Vietnam War	795	(164)
Introduction	795	(9)
A Precursor to War	804	(4)
``Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam'' (1945)	804	(4)
Ho Chi Minh
1965: Year of Escalation and Protest	808	(42)
a Speech to the U.S. Senate (1965)	808	(16)
Thomas J. Dodd
U.S. Department of State, from the White Paper Aggression from the North: The Record of North Vietnam's Campaign to Conquer South Vietnam (1965)	824	(10)
``A Reply to the `White Paper''' (1965)	834	(6)
I.F. Stone
``Declaration of Conscience against the War in Vietnam'' (1965)	840	(2)
David Dellinger
A.J. Muste
``Afterthoughts on a Napalm-Drop on Jungle Villages near Haiphong'' (1965)	842	(1)
Barbara Beidler
``Truth Blazes Even in Little Children's Hearts'' (1965)	842	(3)
Huy Can
``The Incredible War'' (1965)	845	(5)
Paul Potter
The War at Home	850	(97)
``Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam'' (1967)	850	(10)
Martin Luther King Jr.
``Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia'' (1968)	860	(8)
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Mobilization committee to end the War in Vietnam, ``A Message to Gls and to the Movement'' (1968)	868	(3)
``Vietnamization'' (1969)	871	(10)
Richard M. Nixon
Parasites, Protesters, and the Press (1969)	881	(9)
Spiro T. Agnew
Testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1971)	890	(8)
John. F. Kerry
Veterans Remember
``On the Rainy River'' (1990)	898	(13)
Tim O'Brien
Harold ``Light Bulb'' Bryant, Oral History (1984)	911	(12)
Oral History (1987)	923	(8)
Leslie Mcclusky
Born on the Fourth of July (1976)	931	(16)
Ron Kovic
Assignment Sequences	947	(4)
Research Kit	951	(8)
Index of Authors and Titles	959