American lives, American issues by Newman, Robert S., 1935- instant download

American lives, American issues by Newman, Robert S., 1935- instant download

Includes index, 1. Personal narratives: the individual view. On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianne Demarco Torgovnick -- Free at last? a personal perspective / Glenn C. Loury -- Entering the conversation / Mike Rose -- \"What is a homosexual?\" from Virtually normal / Andrew Sullivan -- \"Mascot\" from The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X and Alex Haley -- \"School\" from Color of water / James McBride -- Mute in an English-only world / Chang-Rae Lee -- \"On reading difference\" from Ploughshares / Diana Abu-Jaber, 2. American places. \"The apostate in the attic\" from Bone deep in the landscape / Mary Clearman Blew -- \"L.A. cucaracha urban sketch journal\" from Urban Latino cultures, La Vida Latina en L.A. / Lalo Alcaraz -- \"Angels on the ceiling\" from When I was Puerto Rican / Esmeralda Santiago -- \"La conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a new consciousness\" from Borderlands / Gloria Anzaldua -- \"No place to go back to\" from Why history matters / Gerda Lerner -- \"East/west values\" from Voices from Southeast Asia / Monk Phen Anonthasy -- \"All over the place\" from Lure of the local / Lucy Lippard, 3. Theoretical interlude: prejudice and discrimination. The unwanted / William Finnegan -- Chart: major causes of prejudice and discrimination, and \"Key ideas\" from Prejudice and discrimination / S. Dale McLemore -- \"Racial formations\" from Racial formation in the United States / Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- \"Identity development in adolescence\" from Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? / Beverly Tatum -- I'm black, you're white, who's innocent? / Shelby Steele -- \"The right to do wrong\" from The Libertarian reader / Roger Pilon -- Sending cinematic Smoke signals: an interview with Sherman Alexie / Sherman Alexie, Dennis West, and Joan M. West -- Home is where the Han is: a Korean American perspective on the Los Angeles upheavals / Elaine H. Kim, 4. American pluralism. \"Preface\" from Americans, a…