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Subject(s)

• Readers—United States [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]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• College 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.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

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
• Aunt Ida pieces a quilt / Melvin Dixon
• The color of family ties : race, gender, and extended family involvement / Naomi Gerstel
• Visual portfolio : reading images of American families
• (From) To the end of June : the intimate life of American foster care / Cris Beam
• (From) Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn
• Why are all the cartoon mothers dead? / Sarah boxer
• 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
• Learning to read / Malcolm X
• Still separate, still unequal / Jonathan Kozol
• A prostitute, a servant, and a customer-service representative : a Latina in academia / Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo
• Don't s send your kids to the Ivy League / William Derisiewicz
• 3. The wild wired West
• Myths of progress on the tech frontier
• Our future selves / Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
• Growing up tethered / Sherry Turkle
• Cybersexism / Laurie Penny
• Love me tinder / Emily Witt
• Visual portfolio : reading images of wired culture
• The loneliness of the interconnected / Charles Seife
• Inequality : can social media resolve social divisions? / Danah Boyd
• George Orwell ... meet Mark Zuckerberg / Lori Andrews
• Precognitive police / Henrick Karoliszyn --
• 4. Money and success
• The myth of individual opportunity
• Sam Walton, Jay Z / George Packer
• Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich
• Class in America, 2012 / Gregory Mantsios
• (From) Beyond outrage / Robert B. Reich
• Visual portfolio : reading images of individual opportunity
• (From) A tangle of pathology to a race-fair America / Alan Aja, [et al.]
• Framing class, vicarious living, and conspicuous consumption / Diana Kendall
• Slavery in the land of the free / Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
• 5. True women and real men
• Myths of gender
• Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
• Becoming members of society : learning the social meanings of gender / Aaron H. Devor
• Quandaries of representation / Mona El-Ghobashy
• "Two ways a woman can get hurt" : advertising and violence / Jean Kilbourne
• Visual portfolio : reading images of gender
• The longest war / Rebecca Solnit
• (From) Fly-girls to bitches and hos / Joan Morgan
• "Bros before hos" : the guy code / Michale Kimmel
• Sisterhood is complicated / Ruth Padawer
• 6. Created equal
• The myth of the melting pot
• The case for reparations / Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Theories and constructs of race / Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe
• Gentrification / Sherman Alexie
• Loot or find : fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado
• Visual portfolio : reading images of the melting pot
• Land of the giants / Alex Tizon
• (From) Rez life : an Indian's journey through reservation life / David Treuer
• HOw immigrants become "other" / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco.

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ISBN

• 9781457699214 (student edition : paperback)
• 1457699214 (student edition : paperback)
• 9781457699399 (Instructor ed.)
• 1457699397 (Instructor ed.)

OCLC

953415177

RCP

H - S

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