Table of Contents1. Language and Communication
Richard Rodriguez, “Aria”
Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
Gloria Naylor, “A Question of Language”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective”
Deborah Tannen, “I'm Sorry, I Won't Apologize”
Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
Maxine Hong Kingston, “Silence”
Susan Brownmiller, “Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet” 2. Education and Learning
Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write”
Mike Rose, “I Just Want To Be Average”
Adrienne Rich, “Claiming an Education”
Bell Hooks, “Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education”
Shelby Steele, “The Recoloring of Campus Life”
Maya Angelou, “Graduation”
Neil Postman, “Virtual Students, Digital Classrooms”
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Whose Canon Is It, Anyway?” 3. Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
Ronald Takaki, “The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority”
Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Judith Cofer, “Casa, A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood”
Langston Hughes, “Salvation”
N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain”
James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”
Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Spaces”
Noel Ignatiev, “How the Irish Became White” 4. Relationships and Sexual Politics
Judy Brady, “Why I [Still] Want a Wife”
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, “The Making of a Divorce Culture”
Scott Russell Sanders, “The Men We Carry In Our Minds”
Cornel West, “On Black Fathering”
Anna Quindlen, “Evan's Two Moms”
Bruno Bettleheim, “Cinderella: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts”
Ellen Goodman, “A Reasonable Woman Standard”
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Margaret Atwood: “The Female Body”
Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mother's Garden”
Camille Paglia, “Rape and Modern Sex War” 5. Government, Power, and Justice
Machiavelli, “Qualities of a Prince”
Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence”
Elizabeth Cade Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments”
Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I a Woman”
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Hannah Arendt, “Deportations from Western Europe”
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
E.B. White, “The Meaning of Democracy”
George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant” 6. Economics, Work, and Consumer Culture
Gloria Steinem, “Sex, Lies and Advertising”
Jesse Jackson, “Who Makes the Clothes We Wear”
Dave Barry, “Red, White and Beer”
Patricia Williams, “Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt”
Adam Smith, “Principle of Commercial System”
James Twitchell, “But First, A Word from Our Sponsor”
James Q. Wilson, “Cars and Their Enemies”
Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth”
Russell Baker, “Work in Corporate America”
Studs Terkel, “Who Built the Pyramids: Mike Lefevre”
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Fear of Falling” 7. Philosophy, Ethics, and the Value of Life
Plato, “Allegory of the Cave”
Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple”
Sallie Tisdale, “We Do Abortions Here”
James Rachels, “Active and Passive Euthanasia”
Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving”
William Bennett, “America at Risk: Can We Survive Without Moral Values”
Virginia Woolf, “Death of a Moth”
Edward I. Koch, “Death and Justice” 8. Nature, Science, and Technology
Stephen Jay Gould, “Darwin's Middle Road”
Terry Tempest Williams, “The Clan of One-Breasted Women”
Edward O. Wilson, “Is Humanity Suicidal?”
Jeremy Rifkin, “The Ultimate Theraphy: Commercial Eugenics on the Eve of the Biotech Century”
Chief Seattle, “Letter to President Pierce”
Charles Krauthammer, “Of Headless Mice and Men”
Ursula LeGuin, “Those Who Walk Away From Omelas”
Lewis Thomas, “Lives of a Cell”
Howard Rheingold, “The Virtual Community"
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