Rereading America

*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’”