Diversity
Strength and Struggle (A Longman Topics Reader)
Published on 8. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-321-31731-5 (ISBN)
Description
Part of the Longman Topic Series, this brief reader encourages an examination of diversity in America, in order to understand what both enriches and threatens the country's core values "of liberty and justice for all."
This collection of readings provides opportunities for students to examine the impact "racial" and "ethnic" identity have on diverse groups, some of them challenging the notion of race as a meaningful category for thinking about human identity. Authors included in this collection write about the personal and political aspects of racial and ethnic identity in a variety of ways including describing experiences of exclusion, satirizing stereotyping, analyzing the sources of alienation, and arguing for changes that will ensure inclusion.
"Longman Topics" are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling topic. These volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.
This collection of readings provides opportunities for students to examine the impact "racial" and "ethnic" identity have on diverse groups, some of them challenging the notion of race as a meaningful category for thinking about human identity. Authors included in this collection write about the personal and political aspects of racial and ethnic identity in a variety of ways including describing experiences of exclusion, satirizing stereotyping, analyzing the sources of alienation, and arguing for changes that will ensure inclusion.
"Longman Topics" are brief, attractive readers on a single complex, but compelling topic. These volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.
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Content
Preface
What is Race For?
1. Americans' Complex Identities
Three Is Not Enough, Sharon Begley
Being An Other, Melissa Algranati
Fraternity, Garrett Hongo
Living In Two Cultures, Jean Wakatsuki Houston
American Dreamer, Bharati Mukherjee
Ethnicity and Identity: Creating a Sense of Self, Claire Chow
Reading, Research, and Writing
2. Reflections And Distortions In The Media And Popular Culture
Put On a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites, Benjamin Demott
The Long March from Wong to Woo, Tiana Thi Than Nga
Crimes Against Humanity, Ward Churchill
The Don Juan Syndrome, Julie Chapa
Hollywood Targets Arab and Muslim Americans Since 9/11, Jack Shaheen
Real Minority; Media Majority, Salim Muwakkil
Reading, Research, and Writing
3. Confinement Within Stereotypes
Graduation, Maya Angelou
Growing Up Asian in America, Kesaya E. Noda
For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat
The Model Minority Image, C.N. Le
Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, Judith Ortiz Cofer
Reading, Research, and Writing
4. The Reality of the Personal
Mother's English, Amy Tan
Like Mexicans, Gary Soto
Baby, bell hooks
My Jewish Nose, Lisa Miya-Jervis
Of Race and Risk, Patricia Williams
Freedom From Choice, Brian A. Courtney
Reading, Research, and Writing
Enduring Discrimination: Miles to Go, Promises to Keep
Driving While Black, John Lamberth
Not Color Blind: Just Blind, Burke Marshall and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Blind Spot, Peter Beinart
Construction of an Enemy, Eleanor Stein
Voting While Black, Bob Herbert
Nobodies, John Bowe
Reading, Research, and Writing
What is Race For?
1. Americans' Complex Identities
Three Is Not Enough, Sharon Begley
Being An Other, Melissa Algranati
Fraternity, Garrett Hongo
Living In Two Cultures, Jean Wakatsuki Houston
American Dreamer, Bharati Mukherjee
Ethnicity and Identity: Creating a Sense of Self, Claire Chow
Reading, Research, and Writing
2. Reflections And Distortions In The Media And Popular Culture
Put On a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites, Benjamin Demott
The Long March from Wong to Woo, Tiana Thi Than Nga
Crimes Against Humanity, Ward Churchill
The Don Juan Syndrome, Julie Chapa
Hollywood Targets Arab and Muslim Americans Since 9/11, Jack Shaheen
Real Minority; Media Majority, Salim Muwakkil
Reading, Research, and Writing
3. Confinement Within Stereotypes
Graduation, Maya Angelou
Growing Up Asian in America, Kesaya E. Noda
For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat
The Model Minority Image, C.N. Le
Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria, Judith Ortiz Cofer
Reading, Research, and Writing
4. The Reality of the Personal
Mother's English, Amy Tan
Like Mexicans, Gary Soto
Baby, bell hooks
My Jewish Nose, Lisa Miya-Jervis
Of Race and Risk, Patricia Williams
Freedom From Choice, Brian A. Courtney
Reading, Research, and Writing
Enduring Discrimination: Miles to Go, Promises to Keep
Driving While Black, John Lamberth
Not Color Blind: Just Blind, Burke Marshall and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Blind Spot, Peter Beinart
Construction of an Enemy, Eleanor Stein
Voting While Black, Bob Herbert
Nobodies, John Bowe
Reading, Research, and Writing