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• ISBN: 007017086X
• ISBN: 9780070170865
• Physical Description: xxvi, 591 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Publisher: New York : McGraw Hill Companies, ©1997.

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General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

List of Selections by Rhetorical Mode -- Preface -- 1 The Time When There Were No People on the Earth Plain: Bering Strait Eskimo Creation Myth (starting p. 4) -- 2 On Love, from "Symposium" (starting p. 8) / Plato -- 3 Genesis, Chapters 1, 2, and 3: The Creation and the Fall: From the King James Version of the Bible (starting p. 13) -- 4 Letter Describing the Results of His First Voyage (starting p. 19) / Christopher Columbus -- 5 The Promised Land (starting p. 25) / Mary Antin -- 6 America Singing: An Address to the Newly Arrived Peoples (starting p. 30) / Garrett Hongo -- 7 My Early Years (starting p. 41) / Frederick Douglass -- 8 Chronicle (poem) (starting p. 49) / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge -- 9 Born Without Light: The Effect of Slavery on African American Children (starting p. 52) / Mary Peterson -- 10 Families (starting p. 62) / Jane Howard -- 11 Variations on a Theme (starting p. 67) / Jean Seligmann -- 12 Finding A Wife (starting p. 75) / Gary Soto -- 13 Pom's Engagement (starting p. 79) / Ved Mehta -- 14 TV Families (starting p. 87) / Ella Taylor -- 15 Teenagers in Crisis (starting p. 97) / David Elkind -- 16 Mothers, Sons and the Gangs (starting p. 107) / Sue Horton -- 17 Beyond Manzanar (starting p. 117) / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- 18 Nani (poem) (starting p. 128) / Alberto Rios -- 19 A New Breed of Fathers (starting p. 131) / Kirill Dmitriev -- 20 Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today (starting p. 140) / Phyllis Rose -- 21 No Name Woman (starting p. 144) / Maxine Hong Kingston -- 22 Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture (starting p. 154) / Robert Levine, Ellen Wolff -- 23 The Last of the Kiowas (starting p. 160) / N. Scott Momaday -- 24 America's Emerging Gay Culture (starting p. 166) / Randall Majors -- 25 Amish Economics (starting p. 176) / Gene Logsdon -- 26 An Indian Family in New York (starting p. 185) / Bharati Mukherjee -- 27 The Japanese Syndrome (starting p. 192) / Keiko Nozoe -- 28 American Space, Chinese Place (starting p. 200) / Yi-Fu Tuan -- 29 El Hoyo (starting p. 203) / Mario Suarez -- 30 The Perfect House (starting p. 206) / Farley Mowat -- 31 Cultural Shock in Reverse (starting p. 211) / James R. Corey -- 32 Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco (starting p. 216) / Frances FitzGerald -- 33 Heaven (poem) (starting p. 227) / Cathy Song -- 34 Home (starting p. 230) / Lucretia Dibba -- 35 School Days of an Indian Girl (starting p. 238) / Zitkala-Sa -- 36 Getting Tough (starting p. 246) / Ezra Bowen -- 37 Shame (starting p. 255) / Dick Gregory -- 38 By Any Other Name (starting p. 260) / Santha Rama Rau -- 39 Footsteps of My Life (starting p. 266) / Helen Keller -- 40 Barba Nikos (starting p. 274) / Harry Mark Petrakis -- 41 I Ask My Mother to Sing (poem) (starting p. 279) / Li-Young Lee -- 42 Discovery (starting p. 281) / Liann Sumner -- 43 Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments (starting p. 289) / Robert Heilbroner -- 44 Twice an Outsider: On Being Jewish and a Woman (starting p. 293) / Vivian Gornick -- 45 Unfair Game (starting p. 301) / Susan Jacoby -- 46 Distancing the Homeless (starting p. 305) / Jonathan Kozol -- 47 In Response to Executive Order 9066 (poem) (starting p. 316) / Dwight Okita -- 48 Miami: The Cuban Presence (starting p. 318) / Joan Didion -- 49 Hair (starting p. 327) / Malcolm X. -- 50 The Economics of Hate (starting p. 330) / Andromeda Polhemus -- 51 Linguistic Factors in Prejudice (starting p. 340) / Gordon Allport -- 52 Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean? (starting p. 350) / Gloria Naylor -- 53 Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood (starting p. 354) / Richard Rodriguez -- 54 Viva Bilingualism (starting p. 371) / James Fallows -- 55 Ethics and the Language of AIDS (starting p. 376) / Judith Wilson Ross -- 56 Breaking Silence (poem) (starting p. 387) / Janice Mirikitani -- 57 Language and Literature from a Pueblo Perspective (starting p. 391) / Leslie Marmon Silko -- 58 Silence Is a Loud, Loud Language (starting p. 401) / Bobbie Su Nadal -- 59 Where I Come From Is Like This (starting p. 410) / Paula Gunn Allen -- 60 The Men We Carry in Our Minds (starting p. 417) / Scott Russell Sanders -- 61 Manufactured Images: How Women Appear in Advertising (starting p. 422) / Nina Easton -- 62 Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab (starting p. 430) / Nawal el-Saadawi -- 63 Graduation (starting p. 448) / Maya Angelou -- 64 Shooting an Elephant (starting p. 458) / George Orwell -- 65 Why They Hated Us: A Study of the Nature of British Imperialism (starting p. 465) / Jaana Parkkinen -- 66 Football Red and Baseball Green (starting p. 474) / Murray Ross -- 67 Can TV Help Save Black Youth? (starting p. 481) / Diane Goldner -- 68 Sin, Suffer and Repent (starting p. 486) / Donna Woolfolk Cross -- 69 Eight Ways of Looking at an Amusement Park (starting p. 493) / Russell B. Nye -- 70 An Often Long Journey: An Interview with Joy Harjo (starting p. 508) / Laura Coltelli -- 71 "Cinderella": A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts (starting p. 514) / Bruno Bettelheim -- 72 "Cinderella": A Tale That Promotes Sexist Values (starting p. 521) / Pei-ti Feng -- 73 The Cult of Ethnicity, Good or Bad (starting p. 528) / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- 74 Communication in a Global Village (starting p. 532) / Dean Barnlund -- 75 Minor Accidents (starting p. 542) / Raymonde Carroll -- 76 On Friendship (starting p. 551) / Margaret Mead, Rhoda Metraux -- 77 Thriving as an Outsider, Even an Outcast, in Smalltown America (starting p. 556) / Louie Crew -- 78 The Real Lesson of L.A. (starting p. 564) / Bill Bradley -- 79 Typical (starting p. 570) / Mark Singer -- 80 Mostly Scared: Handling Prejudice in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (starting p. 574) / Craig Wilson -- 81 Crossing Bridges (starting p. 577) / Karen Kampf -- Glossary (starting p. 583) -- Index of Authors and Titles (starting p. 585)

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