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"Mary" / Maya Angelou -- An end to audience? / Margaret Atwood -- Down at the cross / James Baldwin -- Communication in a global village / Dean Barnlund -- Community, commitment, and individuality / Robert Bellah [et al.] -- The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / Bruno Bettelheim -- Observations on Marxism and Lakota tradition / Frank Black Elk -- The social power of expert healers / Howard Brody -- Black feminist process : in the midst of- / Barbara Christian -- Incidents of tourism in Chiapas & Yucatan / James Clifford -- Cybergrace : the search for God in the digital world / Jennifer J. Cobb -- Those dead guys for a hundred years / Jimmie Durham -- Chosen people / Stuart Ewen -- Yup'ik lives and how we see them / Ann Fienup-Riordan -- Becoming literate : a lesson from the Amish / Andrea R. Fishman -- McDonald's : we do it all for you / Barbara Garson -- Performative excellence : circum-Mediterranean / David Gilmore -- Literature traditions / Shirley Brice Heath -- The stolen party / Liliana Heker -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Berlin walls / Brian Ladd -- The vastness of the dark / Alistair MacLeod -- From outside, in / Barbara Mellix -- Marooned on Gilligan's Island : are women morally superior to men? / Katha Pollitt -- Women and honor : some notes on lying / Adrienne Rich -- Political and cultural cross-dressing : negotiating a second generation Cuban-American identity / Flavio Risech -- Complexion / Richard Rodriguez -- Grief and a headhunter's rage / Renato Rosaldo -- Observing and intervening / Steven Rose -- Love and sex in the life of the Arab / Nawal el-Saadawi -- Go slowly and you arrive / Carol de Saint Victor -- The men we carry on our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- The anthropological looking glass / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Ethics on Wall Street / David P. Schmidt -- On reading a video text / Robert Scholes -- Language and masculinity / Victor Seidler -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- The language of discretion / Amy Tan -- Autobiographies and the history of reading : the meaning of literacy in individual lives / Katherine Tinsley and Carl F. Kaestle -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Values in an age of uncertainty / Jeffrey Weeks -- Jazz, hope, and democracy / Cornel West and Wynton Marsalis -- The experience of policy / Lynda Workman.
Assignment sequences: -- 1. The social contexts of literacy -- 2. Reading the structure of texts -- 3. Objects and subjects in the academy -- 4. Ideas of assimilation -- 5. Cultural bridges and boundaries -- 6. Conserving acts : preserving social values -- 7. Questions of fairness -- 8. Power and knowledge in everyday life -- 9. Family in context -- 10. Minds and matter : thinking about things -- 11. The meanings of work -- 12. Thinking critically about history ; using the past in the present -- 13. Crediting sources and clearing spaces.
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