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Rereading America
Eleventh Edition©2019 Gary Colombo; Robert Cullen; Bonnie Lisle
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Rereading America is a favorite among students because it works. Watch yourself grow as a critical thinker and writer as you grapple with cross-curricular readings that not only engage, but also challenge you to reexamine deeply held cultural assumptions, such as viewing success solely as the result of hard work. Extensive apparatus offers you a proven framework for revisiting, revising, or defending those assumptions as you probe the myths underlying them. Rereading America has stayed at the forefront of American culture, contending with cultural myths as they persist, morph, and develop anew. The eleventh edition features a refreshed collection of readings with more writing instruction, to help you apply to your own writing the strategies used in the readings.
Table of Contents
*Asterisks indicate new selections
1. Harmony at Home: Myths of Family
Gary Soto, “Looking for Work”
Stephanie Coontz, “What We Really Miss About the 1950s”
Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, “The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family Involvement”
*Larissa MacFarquhar, “When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents?”
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of American Families
*Amy Ellis Nutt, From Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
* Sheryll Cashin, From Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
*Mimi Schippers, From Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
2. Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment
John Taylor Gatto, “Against School”
Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
Jean Anyon, From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
*Nikole Hannah-Jones “Choosing a School For My Daughter In a Segregated City”
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Education and Empowerment
*Sherry Turkle, “Education: Attentional Disarray”
*Peggy Orenstein, “Blurred Lines, Take Two”
*Sara Goldrick-Rab, “City of Broken Dreams”
3. The Wild Wired West: Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, “Our Future Selves”
*Jean M. Twenge, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?”
*Kenneth Goldsmith, “Let’s Get Lost”
*Noreen Malone, “Zoë and the Trolls”
*Jessie Daniels, “Twitter and White Supremacy, A Love Story”
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Wired Culture
*Bruce Schneier, “How We Sold Our Souls—and More—to the Internet Giants”
*Kevin Drum, “You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think”
*Yuval Noah Harari, “Big Data, Google, and the End of Free Will”
4. Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity
Gregory Mantsios, “Class in America”
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Serving in Florida”
Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton, “From a Tangle of Black Pathology to a Race-Fair America”
*Mehrsa Baradaran, From How the Other Half Banks
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Individual Opportunity
Diana Kendall, “Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption”
*Ellen K. Pao, From Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
*Kate Aronoff, “Thank God It’s Monday”
*Rutger Bregman, “Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone”
5. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
*Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree, “How to Do Gender”
*Carlos Andrés Gómez, “Guys’ Club: No Faggots, Bitches, or Pussies Allowed”
Ruth Padawer, “Sisterhood is Complicated”
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Gender
*Allan G. Johnson, From The Gender Knot: “Patriarchy”
Jean Kilbourne, “‘Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt’: Advertising and Violence”
Rebecca Solnit, “The Longest War”
*Jackson Katz, “From Rush Limbaugh to Donald Trump: The Defiant Reassertion of White Male Authority”
6. Created Equal: The Myths of Race
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”
Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, “Theories and Constructs of Race”
Sherman Alexie, “Gentrification”
*Marc Lamont Hill, “Nobody”
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Race
*Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, From Muslim Girl
*José Orduña, “Passport to the New West”
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco, “How Immigrants Become ‘Other’”
Gary Colombo
Gary Colombo is professor emeritus of English and ESL at Los Angeles City College. He has also published Mind Readings: An Anthology for Writers (2002), and with Bonnie Lisle and Sandra Mano, Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling and College Writing (1997), both for Bedford/St. Martins.
Robert Cullen
Robert Cullen is professor emeritus of English at San Jose State University, where he taught a wide range of courses in writing, rhetoric, composition pedagogy, and American literature..
Bonnie Lisle
Bonnie Lisle teaches in the UCLA Writing Programs. With Gary Colombo and Sandra Mano, she is the author of Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling, and College Writing (Bedford/St. Martins, 1997).
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