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Rereading America
Tenth EditionGary Colombo; Robert Cullen; Bonnie Lisle
©2016Enhance your abilities to think and write critically by taking a deeper look into existing cultural assumptions. Rereading America probes the myths underlying these assumptions, as you spend time revisiting, revising, or defending them through your own writing.
Table of Contents
*Larissa MacFarquhar, “When Should a Child Be Taken from His Parents?”
*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 Jonathan Kozol, "Still Separate, Still Unequal" *Sherry Turkle, “Education: Attentional Disarray” *Cathy N. Davidson, “Against Technophilia”
*Kate Harding, “Reasons for Hope”
*Sara Goldrick-Rab, “City of Broken Dreams”
3: The Wild Wired West: Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen, "Our Future Selves"
*Kenneth Goldsmith, “Wasting Time on the Internet”
*Jean M. Twenge, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?”
*Noreen Malone, “Zoë and the Trolls”
*Jessie Daniels, “Twitter and White Supremacy, A Love Story”
*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, “Google, Big Data, 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
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”
*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 Myth of the Melting Pot Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations" Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, "Theories and Constructs of Race" *Marc Lamont Hill, “Nobody”
Sherman Alexie, "Gentrification" *Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, From Muslim Girl
*José Orduña, “Passport to the New West” *Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco, "How Immigrants Become 'Other'"