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Rereading America : cultural contexts for critical thinking and writing / edited by Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie Lisle.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Readers.
- Civilization.
- United States--Civilization--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Critical thinking--Study and teaching.
- Critical thinking.
- Report writing--Study and teaching.
- Report writing.
- College readers.
- Civilization--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- College readers.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 684 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Tenth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martins, [2016]
- 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 [and others]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781457699214
- 1457699214
- 9781457699399
- 1457699397
- OCLC:
- 953415177
- Publisher Number:
- 99969661346
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