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Subject(s)

• 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]

Editor

• Colombo, Gary [Browse]
• Cullen, Robert [Browse]
• Lisle, Bonnie [Browse]
• Cannon, Uzzie T. [Browse]

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• Readers (Publications) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• readers [Browse]

Summary note

"Rereading America takes on the myths that dominate U.S. culture--myths about family, education, technology, success, gender roles, and race--and asks you to examine your own assumptions about them. The writers included here challenge you to become a critical thinker with the ability not only to absorb knowledge but to create it." -- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Thinking Critically / Challenging Cultural Myths
• 1. Equal Protection: Myths of Justice
• The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander
• The Case for Reparations / Ta-Nehisi Coates
• How Immigrants Become 'Other /' Marcelo M. Sùrez-Orozco and Carola Sùrez-Orozco
• The Land Before Laws / Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Justice
• Two Worlds / Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
• From Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy / Sheryll Cashin
• The Accidental Citizen / Parker J. Palmer --
• 2. Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment
• Against School / John Taylor Gatto
• 'I Just Wanna Be Average' / Mike Rose
• Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City / Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Education and Empowerment
• Education: Attentional Disarray / Sherry Turkle
• From Educated / Tara Westover
• Blurred Lines, Take Two / Peggy Orenstein
• City of Broken Dreams / Sara Goldrick-Rab
• 3. The 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
• The Tech We Throw Away / Tatiana Schlossberg
• Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Wired Culture
• Why Are Black and Latino People Still Kept Out of the Tech Industry? Sam Dean and Johana Bhuiyan
• How We Sold Our Souls--and More--to the Internet Giants / Bruce Schneier
• Big Data, Google, and the End of Free Will / Yuval Noah Harari --
• 4. Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity
• Class in America / Gregory Mantsios
• Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich
• From a Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America / Alan Aja / Daniel Bustillo, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton
• From How the other Half Banks / Mehrsa Baradaran
• Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Individual Opportunity
• Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption / Diana Kendall
• Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone / Rutger Bregman
• 5. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender
• How to Do Gender / Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree
• From The Gender Knot: Patriarchy / Allan G. Johnson
• The Gendered Waters in Which We Swim--the Pink and Blue Tsunami / Gina Rippon
• Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Gender Guys' Club: No Faggots, Bitches, or Pussies Allowed / Carlos Andřs G̤mez
• Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement / Julia Serano
• Sisterhood Is Complicated / Ruth Padawer
• From Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change / Ellen K. Pao
• 6. Created Equal: Myths of Race Theories and Constructs of Race / Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe
• Definitions / Ibram X. Kendi How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People? / Robin DiAngelo
• Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Race
• From Muslim Girl / Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
• The Reality of Asian American Oppression / Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
• Myths about Native Americans / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker Passport to the New West / Još Ordųa

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ISBN

• 9781319244620 (paperback)
• 1319244629 (paperback)

OCLC

1291414479

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