Rereading America : cultural contexts for critical thinking and writing / edited by Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie Lisle.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
Tenth edition.
Published/​Created
Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martins, c2016.
Description
xix, 684 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781457699214 (student edition : paperback)
    • 1457699214 (student edition : paperback)
    • 9781457699399 (Instructor ed.)
    • 1457699397 (Instructor ed.)
    OCLC
    953415177
    RCP
    H - S
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