Rereading America : Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing

by Colombo, Gary; Cullen, Robert; Lisle, Bonnie; Colombo, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780312148379
• ISBN10: 0312148372
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction: Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths	1	(16)
Harmony at Home: The Myth of the Model Family	17	(136)
A Family Tree; Freedom from Want; Freedom from Fear	21	(4)
Norman Rockwell
Myths of Family Past	25	(17)
John R. Gillis
Looking for Work	42	(5)
Gary Soto
Growing Pains: Beyond ``One Big Happy Family''	47	(8)
Anndee Hochman
What We Really Miss About the 1950s	55	(16)
Stephanie Coontz
Television's Transformative Role in Courtroom Justice for Women and Children [Media Selection]	71	(10)
Elizabeth Dodson Gray
The Coming White Underclass	81	(7)
Charles Murray
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker	88	(3)
Benjamin Franklin
From Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy	91	(18)
Kristin Luker
An Indian Story	109	(9)
Roger Jack
Envy	118	(13)
Bebe Moore Campbell
Black Women and Motherhood	131	(18)
Patricia Hill Collins
Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt	149	(4)
Melvin Dixon
Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment	153	(150)
From Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879	159	(7)
The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher	166	(8)
John Taylor Gatto
``I Just Wanna Be Average''	174	(12)
Mike Rose
From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work	186	(16)
Jean Anyon
The Achievement of Desire	202	(14)
Richard Rodriguez
Para Teresa	216	(3)
Ines Hernandez-Avila
Learning to Read	219	(9)
Malcolm X
Higher Education: Colder by Degress	228	(23)
Myra Sadker
David Sadker
Silence	251	(5)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Connected Education for Women	256	(7)
Blythe McVicker Clinchy
Mary Field Belenky
Nancy Goldberger
Jill Mattuck Tarule
Politics in the Schoolroom	263	(14)
Lynne V. Cheney
The Computerized Campus [Media Selection]	277	(12)
Theodore Roszak
The Hard Part Is Making It Happen	289	(14)
Deborah Meier
Paul Schwarz
Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity	303	(106)
From Ragged Dick	306	(8)
Horatio Alger
From Colin Powell: Straight to the Top	314	(6)
Rose Blue
Corinne J. Naden
Horatio Alger	320	(6)
Harlon Dalton
Stephen Cruz	326	(5)
Studs Terkel
Rewards and Opportunities: The Politics and Economics of Class in the U.S.	331	(17)
Gregory Mantsios
The Lesson	348	(8)
Toni Cade Bambara
Have-Mores and Have-Lesses	356	(10)
Donald L. Barlett
James B. Steele
Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority	366	(10)
Curtis Chang
The Black Avenger [MEDIA SELECTION]	376	(9)
Ken Hamblin
Number One!	385	(5)
Jill Nelson
Good Noise: Cora Tucker	390	(11)
Anne Witte Garland
You're Short, Besides!	401	(8)
Sucheng Chan
True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender	409	(119)
How the Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes	414	(4)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Girl	418	(3)
Jamaica Kincaid
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender	421	(9)
Holly Devor
Nora Quealey	430	(6)
Jean Reith Schroedel
The Story of My Body	436	(10)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Me Macho, You Jane	446	(12)
Dagoberto Gilb
Advertising and the Constrtruction of Violent White Masculinity [MEDIA SELECTION]	458	(10)
Jackson Katz
Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Not	468	(15)
Mariah Burton Nelson
Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? [MEDIA SELECTION]	483	(8)
Bell Hooks
The Gender Wardens	491	(12)
Christina Hoff Sommers
Appearances	503	(9)
Carmen Vazquez
The Two	512	(8)
Gloria Naylor
Where I Come from Is Like This	520	(8)
Paula Gunn Allen
Created Equal: The Myth of the Melting Pot	528	(150)
From Notes on the State of Virginia	532	(6)
Thomas Jefferson
A Different Mirror	538	(19)
Ronald Takaki
Three Thousand Dollar Death Song	557	(3)
Wendy Rose
We, the Dangerous	560	(2)
Janice Mirikitani
Causes of Prejudice	562	(13)
Vincent N. Parrillo
C. P. Ellis	575	(11)
Studs Terkel
From Individual to Structural Discrimination	586	(8)
Fred L. Pincus
Fences Against Freedom	594	(10)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Town Hall Television [MEDIA SELECTION]	604	(8)
Patricia J. Williams
I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent?	612	(11)
Shelby Steele
Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness	623	(12)
Jane Lazarre
Can A New Race Surmount Old Prejudices?	635	(17)
Ellis Cose
Gray Boys, Funky Aztecs, and Honorary Homegirls	652	(13)
Lynell George
La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness	665	(10)
Gloria Anzaldua
Child of the Americas	675	(3)
Aurora Levins Morales
Liberty and Justice for All: The Myth of Freedom	678	(121)
Declaration of Independence	684	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
New Peoples and New Societies	688	(7)
Colin G. Calloway
Easy in the Harness: The Tyranny of Freedom	695	(10)
Gerry Spence
Past Present	705	(7)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Freedom Time	712	(6)
June Jordan
TV, Freedom, and the Loss of Community [MEDIA SELECTION]	718	(14)
Bill McKibben
What Rights Do We Have?	732	(14)
David Boaz
Hate Radio [MEDIA SELECTION]	746	(9)
Patricia J. Williams
The Price of Admission: Harassment and Free Speech in the Wild, Wild West	755	(14)
Stephanie Brail
Freeing Choices	769	(11)
Nancy Mairs
The Bridge Builder: Kathleen Boatwright	780	(9)
Eric Marcus
Let America Be America Again	789	(10)
Langston Hughes
Index of Authors and Titles	799