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• Readers [Browse]
• United States—Civilization—Study and teaching [Browse]
• English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Critical thinking—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Report writing—Study and teaching [Browse]
• College readers [Browse]

Related name

• Colombo, Gary [Browse]
• Cullen, Robert [Browse]
• Lisle, Bonnie [Browse]

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• College readers [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : thinking critically, challenging cultural myths
• 1. Harmony at home
• The myth of the model family
• Looking for work / Gary Soto
• What we really miss about the 1950s / Stephanie Coontz
• The color of family ties : race, gender, and extended family involvement / Naomi Gerstel
• When should a child be taken from his parents? / Larissa Macfarquar
• Visual portfolio : reading images of American families
• (From) Becoming Nicole : the transformation of American family / Amy Ellis Nutt
• (From) Loving: Interracial intimacy in America and the threat if white supremacy / Sheryll Cashin From : Beyond monogamy : Polyamory and the future of polyqueer sexualities / Mimi Schippers
• 2. Learning power
• The myth of education and empowerment
• The essentials of a good education / Diane Ravitch
• Against school / John Taylor Gatto
• "I just wanna be average" / Mike Rose
• (From) Social class and the hidden curriculum of work / Jean Anyon
• Visual portfolio : reading images of education and empowerment
• Education :attentional disarray ? Sherry Turkle
• Blurred lines, take two / Peggy Orenstein
• City of broken dreams / Sara Goldrick-Rab
• 3. The wild wired West
• Myths of progress on the tech frontier
• Our future selves / Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
• has the smartphone destroyed a generation / JEan M. Twenge
• Let's get lost / Kenneth Goldsmith
• Zoe and the trolls / Noreen Malone
• Twitter and the white supremacy, a love story / Jessie Daniels
• Visual portfolio : reading images of wired culture
• How we sold our souls - and more to the internet giants / Bruce Schneier
• You will lose your job to a robot and sooner than you think / Kevin Drum
• Big data, google and the end of free will / Yuval Noah Harari
• 4. Money and success
• The myth of individual opportunity
• Class in America / George Mantsios
• Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Visual portfolio : reading images of individual opportunity
• (From) A tangle of pathology to a race-fair America / Alan Aja [and others]
• How the other half banks / Mehrsa Baradaran
• Framing class, vicarious living and conspicuous consumption / Diana Kendall
• My fight for inclusion and lasting change / Ellen K Pao
• Thank God it's Monday / Kate Aronoff
• Why we should give free money to everyone / Rutger Bregman
• 5. True women and real men
• Myths of gender
• Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -How to do gender / Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree
• Guys' club ; no faggots, bitches, or pussies allowed / Carlos Andres Gomez
• Sisterhood is complicated / Ruth Padawer
• Visual portfolio : reading images of gender
• The longest war / Rebecca Solnit --(From) the gender knot : Patriarchy / Allan G. Johnson
• "Two ways a woman can get hurt' Advertising and violence / Jean Kilbourne
• From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump ; conservative talk radio and the defiant reassertion of the white male authority / Jackson Katz
• 6. Created equal
• The myth race
• The case for reparations / Ta- Nehisi Coates
• Theories and constructs of race / Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe
• Gentrification / Sherman Alexie
• Nobody / Marc Lamont Hill
• Visual portfolio : reading images of race
• (From) Muslim girls / Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
• Passport to the New West / Jose Orduna
• How immigrants become "other" / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco.

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ISBN

• 9781319056360 (paperback)
• 1319056369 (paperback)

OCLC

1083340306

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