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Writers together / Toni Morrison -- Marriage : the changing institution / Joanne Jaime -- Why I am a writer / Pat Mora -- Freewriting / Peter Elbow -- My mother's English / Amy Tan -- Ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The offering of the pipe / Black Elk -- Journey to Nine Miles / Alice Walker -- American horse / Louise Erdrich -- Saigon, April 1975 / Nguyen Ngoc Ngan -- The woman who makes swell doughnuts / Toshio Mori -- Champion of the world / Maya Angelou -- Notes from a son to his father / Russell C. Leong -- Old before her time / Katherine Barrett -- from The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- My own style / Nikki Giovanni -- The myth of the model minority / Philip K. Chiu -- A young Polish American speaks up : the myth of the melting pot / Barbara Mikulski -- Artificial intelligence / R. Colin Johnson -- The ways we lie / Stephanie Ericsson -- What is intelligence, anyway? / Isaac Asimov -- What is poverty? / Jo Goodwin Parker -- Documented/undocumented / Guillermo Gomez-Pena -- Slang origins / Woody Allen -- Does America still exist? / Richard Rodriguez -- How to write a personal letter / Garrison Keillor -- Loafing made easy / Sam Negri -- A homemade education / Malcolm X -- Perspectives on borders / Luis M. Valdez -- Behind the formaldehyde curtain / Jessica Mitford -- They shut my grandmother's room door / Andrew Lam -- Neat people vs. sloppy people / Suzanne Britt -- The tapestry of friendship / Ellen Goodman -- Kissing customs / Michael T. Kaufman -- Education / E.B. White -- The ways of meeting oppression / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Creatures that haunt the Americas / Constance Garcia-Barrio -- A few kind words for superstition / Robertson Davies -- American Indians : homeless in their own homeland / Gary Tewalestewa -- The decline of neatness / Norman Cousins -- Aging in the Lland of the Young / Sharon Curtin -- The naked face / Karen Ray -- Elderly refugees and language learning / Allene Guss Grognet -- Labor and capital : the coming catastrophe / Carlos Bulosan -- Arrival at Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston -- Is there really such a thing as talent? / Annie Dillard -- Sharing tradition / Frank LaPena -- Curanderismo : a healing art / Cynthia Lopez -- How I started writing poetry / Reginald Lockett -- The libido for the ugly / H.L. Mencken -- Who is your mother? : red roots of white feminism / Paula Gunn Allen -- Soul food / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- This land was your land / Judy Christup -- Equality, yes : militarism, no / Annette Fuentes -- Disstance learning and American society / Mark Charles Fissel -- Peyote, wine, and First Amendament / Douglas Laycock -- Drugs / Gore Vidal -- Women are better drivers / Phyllis McGinley -- Fetal alcohol syndrome / Michael Dorris -- Racism and militarism : the nuclear connection / Ron Glass -- Degrees of discomfort : is homophobia equivalent to racism? / Jonathan Alter -- I want to live without trouble / a North Chinese/Vietnamese elder.
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