Genre:
Anthology
// Essay
General Catagory: Non-Fiction
Sub-genre: Cultural Criticism
Nationality: - American
Time Period: 20th Century / Contemporary
First and Last Read: August 1999
Rated: - ?
Use: ENG153, Freshman Expository Writing
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Harmony at Home: The Myth of the Model Family
. . .17
A Family Tree, Freedom
from Want; Freedom
from Fear . . .21
Norman Rockwell
Myths
of Family Past . . .25
John R. Gillis
Looking
for Work . . .42
Gary Soto
Growing
Pains: Beyond "One Big Happy Family . . .47
Anndee Hochman
What
We Really Miss About the 1950's . . .55
Stephanie Coontz
Television's Transformative Role in courtroom
Justice for Woman and Children . . .71
Elizabeth Dodson Gray
The Coming White Underclass . . .81
Charles Murray
The Speech of Miss Polly Baker . . .88
Benjamin Franklin
From "Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage
Pregnancy" . . .91
Kristin Luker
An Indian Story . . .109
Roger Jack
Envy . . .118
Bebe Moore Campbell
Black Women and Motherhood . . .131
Patricia Hill Collins
Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt . . .149
Melvin Dixon
Chapter Two
Learning Power: The Myth of Education and
Empowerment . . .153
From "Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879 . . .159
The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher . . .166
John Taylor Gatto
"I Just Wanna Be Average" . . .174
Mike Rose
From "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of
Work" . . .186
Jean Anyon
The Anchievement of Desire . . .202
Richard Rodriguez
Para Teresa . . .216
Ines Hernandez-Avila
Learning to Read . . .219
Malcom X
Higher Education: Colder by Degrees . . .228
Myra Sadker and David Sadker
Silence . . .251
Maxine Hong Kingston
Connected Education for Women . . .256
Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Mary Field Belenky,
Nancy Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule
Politics in the Schoolroom . . .263
Lynne V. Cheney
The Computerized Campus . . .277
Theodore Roszak
The Hard Part is Making It Happen . . .289
Deborah Meier and Paul Schwarz
Chapter Three
Money and Success: The Myth of Individual
Opportunity . . .303
From "Ragged Dick" . . .306
Horatio Alger
From "Colin Powell: Straight to the Top" . . .314
Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden
Horatio Alger . . .320
Harlon Dalton
Stephen Cruz . . .326
Studs Terkel
Rewards and Opportunities: The Politics and Economics
of Class in the USA . . .331
Gregory Mantsios
The Lesson . . 348
Toni Cade Bambara
Have-Mores and Have-Lesses . . .356
Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele
Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority
. . .366
Curtis Chang
The Black Avenger . . .376
Ken Hamblin
Number One! . ..385
Jill Nelson
Good Noise: Cora Tucker. . 390
Anne Witte Garland
You're Short, Besides! . . .401
Sucheng Chang
Chapter Four
True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender .
. .409
How the Americans Understand the Equality of the
Sexes . . .414
Alexis de Tocqueville
Girl . . .418
Jamaica Kincaid
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social
Meaning of Gender . . .421
Holly Devor
Nora Quealey . . .430
Jean Reith Schroedel
The Story of My Body . . .436
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Me Macho, You Jane . . .446
Dagoberto Gilb
Advertisitng and the Construction of Violent White
Masculinity . . .458
Jackson Katz
Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Not . . .468
Mariah Burton Nelson
Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? . . .438
Bell Hooks
The Gender Wardens . . .491
Christina Hoff Sommers
Appearances . . .503
Carmen Vazquez
The Two . . .512
Gloria Naylor
Where I Come from Is Like This . . .520
Paula Gunn Allen
Chapter Five
Created Equal: The Myth of the Melting Pot
. . .528
From "Notes of the State of Virginia" . . .532
Thomas Jefferson
A Different Mirror . . .538
Ronald Takaki
Three Thousand Dollar Death Song . . .557
Wendy Rose
We, the Dangerous . . .560
Janice Mirikitani
Causes of Prejudice . . .562
Vincent N. Parrillo
C.P. Eillis . . .575
Studs Terkel
From "Individual to Structural Discrimination
. . .586
Fred L. Pincus
Fences Against Freedom . . .594
Leslie Marmon Silko
Town Hall Television . . .604
Patricia J. Williams
I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent? . . .612
Shelby Steele
Color Blind: The Whiteness of Whiteness . . .623
Jane Lazarre
Can a New Race Surmount Old Prejudices? . . .635
Ellis Cose
Gray Boys, Funky Aztecs, and Honorary Homegirls
. . .652
Lynell George
La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New consciousness
. . 665
Glora Anzaldua
Child of the Americas . ..675
Aurora Levins Morales
Chapter Six
Liberty and Justice for All: The Myth of Freedom
. . .678
Declaration of Independence . . .684
Thomas Jefferson
New Peoples and New Societies . . .688
Colin G. Calloway
Easy in the Harness: The Tyranny of Freedom .
. .695
Gerry Spence
Past Present . . .705
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Freedom Time . . .712
June Jordan
TV, Freedom, and the Loss of Community . . .718
Bill McKibben
What Rights Do We Have? . . .732
David Boaz
Hate Radio . . .746
Patricia J. Williams
The Price of Admission: Harassment and Free Speech
in the Wild, Wild West. . .755
Stephanie Brail
Freeing Choices . . .769
Nancy Mairs
The Bridge Builder: Kathleen Boatwright . . .780
Eric Marcus
Let America be America Again . . .789
Langston Hughes
Index of Authors and Titles . . .799