AMERICAN WAYS OF CONSUMPTION
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| Holly Brubach |
Mail-Order America |
| Bill McKibben |
Pie in the Sky |
| Patrick Vala-Haynes |
What Does Online Shopping Cost Us? |
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CIVILIZATIONS IN CONFLICT
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| Bernard Lewis |
I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go to Hell |
| Mary Louise Pratt |
Arts of the Contact Zone |
| Edward Said |
Clashing Civilizations? |
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CONSERVATIVE CONVICTIONS
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| William J. Bennett |
What Really Ails America |
| William F. Buckley Jr. |
Why Don't We Complain? |
| Linda Chavez |
Demystifying Multiculturalism |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
America the Beautiful: What We're Fighting For |
| C. S. Lewis |
We Have No "Right to Happiness" |
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CONSTRUCTING MASCULINITY
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| Lynne Luciano |
Male Body Image in America |
| Noel Perrin |
The Androgynous Man |
| Katha Pollitt |
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls |
| Paul Theroux |
Being a Man |
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DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE
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| Thomas Jefferson |
The Declaration of Independence |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For |
| Sojourner Truth |
A'n't I a Woman? |
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DISABILITIES
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| Lennard J. Davis |
Visualizing the Disabled Body |
| Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair? |
| Nancy Mairs |
On Being a Cripple |
| Lucia Perillo |
A Definition of Terms |
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DUPLICITY IN LANGUAGE
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| Darrell Huff |
How to Lie with Statistics |
| William Lutz |
The World of Doublespeak |
| George Orwell |
Politics and the English Language |
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EDUCATIONAL REGIMENS
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| Nathan Glazer |
Some Very Modest Proposals for the Improvement of American
Education |
| John Holt |
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading |
| Theodore R. Sizer |
What High School Is |
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EXPERIMENTS IN CONFORMITY
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| Solomon E. Asch |
Opinions and Social Pressure |
| Stanley Milgram |
The Perils of Obedience |
| Philip Zimbardo |
The Stanford Prison Experiment |
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EXPLAINING ADVERTISING
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| Jib Fowles |
Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals |
| Naomi Klein |
No Logo |
| Kalle Lasn |
Hype |
| Gloria Steinem |
Sex, Lies, and Advertising |
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GIVING ADVICE
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| Benjamin Franklin |
Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. To My
Friend A. B. |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
Girl |
| Niccolò Machiavelli |
The Qualities of the Prince |
| Naomi Shihab Nye |
To Any Would-Be Terrorists |
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HUMOR IN WRITING
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| Dave Barry |
In Depth, but Shallowly |
| Suzanne Britt |
Neat People vs. Sloppy People |
| Horace Miner |
Body Ritual among the Nacirema |
| David Sedaris |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
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"I WANT TO BE MISS AMERICA"
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| Julia Alvarez |
I Want to Be Miss America |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
Two Ways to Belong in America |
| Grace Suh |
The Eye of the Beholder |
| Elizabeth Wong |
The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl |
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LANGUAGE IN THE CONTACT ZONE
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| Gloria Anzaldúa |
How to Tame a Wild Tongue |
| Richard Rodriguez |
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective |
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LITERACY AND POLITICS
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| C. H. Knoblauch |
Literacy and the Politics of Education |
| Jonathan Kozol |
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society |
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LITERACY NARRATIVES
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| Frederick Douglass |
Learning to Read and Write |
| Perri Klass |
Learning the Language |
| Malcolm X |
Coming to an Awareness of Language |
| James Thurber |
University Days |
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MAKING ARGUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM
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| Rachel Carson |
The Obligation to Endure |
| Al Gore |
Environmentalism of the Spirit |
| Noel Perrin |
Forever Virgin: The American View of America |
| Wallace Stegner |
Wilderness Letter |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Is Humanity Suicidal? |
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MAKING SPEECHES
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| Gilbert Highet |
The Gettysburg Address |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
I Have a Dream |
| Abraham Lincoln |
The Gettysburg Address |
| Chief Seattle |
Address |
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MARKING GENDER
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| Aaron H. Devor |
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of
Gender |
| Casey Miller and Kate Swift |
Who's in Charge of the English Language? |
| Nawal El Saadawi |
Circumcision of Girls |
| Deborah Tannen |
There Is No Unmarked Woman |
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MEANINGS OF CLASS
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| Paul Fussell |
Notes on Class |
| Karl Marx and Frederick Engels |
The Communist Manifesto |
| Jeremy Seabrook |
What Are "Class" and "Inequality"? |
| Shelby Steele |
On Being Black and Middle Class |
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MEDIATED REALITY
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| Todd Gitlin |
Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling |
| Neil Postman and Steve Powers |
Television News: The Language of Pictures |
| Jeremy Rifkin |
The Age of Simulation |
| Marie Winn |
Television: The Plug-In Drug |
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NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES
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| Paula Gunn Allen |
Where I Come From Is Like This |
| Michael Dorris |
For Indians, No Thanksgiving |
| Linda Hogan |
Hearing Voices |
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OBEDIENCE TO THE STATE
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| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Plato |
Crito |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Civil Disobedience |
| Howard Zinn |
Dying for the Government |
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OBLIGATIONS
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| Stephen Carter |
The Insufficiency of Honesty |
| Michael Eric Dyson |
The Public Obligations of Intellectuals |
| Milton Friedman |
Social Responsibility of Business and Labor |
| Martin Gansberg |
Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police |
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PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK ENGLISH
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| James Baldwin |
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Talking Black |
| Barbara Mellix |
From Outside, In |
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THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY
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| Stephanie Coontz |
A Nation of Welfare Families |
| Garrett Hardin |
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor |
| Jo Goodwin Parker |
What Is Poverty? |
| Anna Quindlen |
Homeless |
| Peter Singer |
The Singer Solution to World Poverty |
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REASONS FOR WRITING
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| Joan Didion |
On Keeping a Notebook |
| Jhumpa Lahiri |
My Two Lives |
| George Orwell |
Why I Write |
| Edward O. Wilson |
The Writing Life |
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REDUCING IDENTITIES TO STEROTYPES
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| Curtis Chang |
Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria |
| Joan Morgan |
Sex, Lies, and Videos |
| Ronald Takaki |
A Different Mirror |
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REPORTS FROM THE SERVICE ECONOMY
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| Dalton Conley |
Tip Jars and the New Economy |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Serving in Florida |
| Amitai Etzioni |
Working at McDonald's |
| Molly Ivins |
Living Wage Fight Goes On |
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REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ARAB WORLD
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| Edward T. Hall |
The Arab World |
| Bernard Lewis |
The Roots of Muslim Rage |
| Nawal El Saadawi |
Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab |
| Jack Shaheen |
The Media's Image of Arabs |
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A SENSE OF PLACE
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| Michael Patrick MacDonald |
Returning to Southie |
| John McPhee |
The Pine Barrens |
| N. Scott Momaday |
The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| E. B. White |
Once More to the Lake |
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SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS
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| Francis Bacon |
The Four Idols |
| Charles Darwin |
Understanding Natural Selection |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Evolution as Fact and Theory |
| Thomas S. Kuhn |
The Route to Normal Science |
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SCIENTIFIC INTERROGATIONS
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| Lee Ann Fisher Baron |
The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of
Science Education |
| K. C. Cole |
Women in Science |
| Jared Diamond |
Soft Sciences Are Often Harder Than Hard Sciences |
| Emily Martin |
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance
Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles |
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TARGETS OF DISCRIMINATION
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| James Baldwin |
Stranger in the Village |
| Ralph Ellison |
On Being the Target of Discrimination |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
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WAYS OF SEEING
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| John Berger |
Ways of Seeing |
| Annie Dillard |
Seeing |
| Mark Twain |
Two Ways of Seeing a River |
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WRITING IN COLLEGE
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| Howard S. Becker |
If You Want to Be a Scholar |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay |
| Fan Shen |
The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to
Learning English Composition |
| Linda Simon |
The Naked Source |
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THE WRITING PROCESS
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| Peter Elbow |
Desperation Writing |
| Peter Elbow |
Freewriting |
| Anne Lamott |
Shitty First Drafts |
| William Stafford |
A Way of Writing |
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