Multitude : cross-cultural readings for writers

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Multitude : cross-cultural readings for writers

Chitra Divakaruni

McGraw Hill Companies, c1997

2nd ed

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Includes index

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Known for its upbeat approach, MULTITUDE brings together a diverse spectrum of voices and issues that reflect our society. This anthology is divided into 10 broad themes and provides a variety of perspectives on the ways people connect across boundaries of ethnicity, class, gender, age, and geography. The 84 readings include essays, student essays, fiction, poetry, letters, and journals and includes a diversity of lengths and difficulty. The second edition features 40% new selections and more writing activities and assignments that incorporate collaboration and research.

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PART 1: HOW IT ALL BEGANBering Strait Eskimo Creation Myth: "The Time When There Were No People on the Earth Plain"Plato: "On Love, From "Symposium"Genesis, "Chapters 1, 2, and 3: The Creation and Fall"Christopher Columbus: "Letter Describing the Results of His First Voyage"Mary Antin: "The Promised Land"*Garrett Hongo: "America Singing: An Address to the Newly Arrived Peoples"Frederick Douglass: "My Early Years"Mei Mei Berssenbrugge: "Chronicle" (poem)*Mary Peterson: "Born Without Light: The Effect of Slavery on African American Children" (Student Essay)PART 2: BONDS OF PASSION, BONDS OF LOVEJane Howard: "Families"*Seligmann: "Variations on a Theme"*Soto: "Finding A Wife"Mehta: "Pom's Engagement"Ella Taylor: "TV Families"David Elkind: "Teenagers in Crisis"*Sue Horton, Motehrs: "Sons and the Gangs"Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston: "Beyond Manzanar"*Alberto Rios: "Nani" (poem)*Kirill Dmitrief: "A New Breed of Fathers" (student essay)PART 3: WHAT WE HOLD WITHINPhyllis Rose: "Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today"Maxine Hong Kingston: "No Name Woman"Robert Levine and Ellen Wolff: "Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture"N. Scott Momaday: "The Last of the Kiowas"*Randall Majors: "America's Emerging Gay Culture"*Gene Logsdon: "Amish Economics"Bharati Mukherjee: "An Indian Family in New York"Keiko Nozoe: "The Japanese Syndrome"PART 4: PLACES WE CALL HOMEYi-Fu Tuan: "American Space, Chinese Place"Maro Suarez: "El Hoyo"*Sandra Cisneros: "The House on Mango Street"*Farley Mowat: "The Perfect House"James R. Corey: "Cultural Shock in Reverse"*Frances FitzGerald: "Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco"Cathy Song: "Heaven" (poem)Lucretia Dibba: "Home" (student essay)PART 5: WAYS BY WHICH WE LEARNZitkals-Sa: "School Days of an Indian Girl"*Ezra Bowen: "Getting Tough"Dick Gregory: "Shame"*Santha Rama Rau: "By Any Other Name"Helen Keller: "Footsteps of My Life"Mark Petrakis: "Barba Nikos"*Li-Young Lee: "I Ask My Mother to Sing" (poem)*Liann Sumner: "Discovery" (student essay)PART 6: THE IMAGING OF IGNORANCERobert Heilbroner: "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgement"*Vivian Gornick: "Twice an Outsider: On Being Jewish and a Woman" Susan Jacoby: "Unfair Game"Jonathan Kozol: "Distancing the Homeless"Dwight Okita: "In Response to Executive Order 9066" (poem)*Joan Didion: Miami: "The Cuban Presence"Malcolm X: "Hair"Andromeda Polhemus: "The Economics of Hate" (student essay) PART 7: WORDS THAT SHAPE USGordon Allport: "Linguistic Factors in Prejudice"Gloria Naylor: "Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean"Richard Rodriquez: Aria: "A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood"James Fallows: "Viva Bilingualism"*Judith Wilson Ross: "Ethics and the Language of AIDS"*Janic Mirikitani: "Breaking Silence" (poem)*Leslie Marmon Silko: "Language and Literature from a Pueblo Perspective"Bobbie Su Nadal: "Silence Is A Loud, Loud Language"PART 8: SEEING OURSELVESPaula Gunn Allen: "Where I Come From Is Like This"Scott Russell Sanders: "The Men We Carry in Our Minds"*Luis Rogriquez: "On Macho"*Nina Easton: "Manufactured Images: How Women Appear in Advertising"Nawal el-Saadawi: "Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab"Maya Angelou: "Graduation"George Orwell: "Shooting an Elephant"*Jaana Parkkinen: "Why They Hated Us: A Study of the Nature of British Imperialism" (student essay)PART 9: THE USES OF ENTERTAINMENTRoss Murray: "Football Red and Baseball Green"Amy Tan: "Four Directions"*Diane Goldner: "Can TV Help Save Black Youth?"Donna Woolfolk Cross: "Sin, Suffer and Repent"*Russell B. Nye: "Eight Ways of Looking at an Amusement Park"*Laura Coltelli: "An Often Long Journey: An Interview with Joy Harjo"Bruno Bettelheim: "Cinderella": A Story of Sibling Rivarly and Oedipal Conflict"Pei-ti Feng: "Cinderella": A Tale that Promotes Sexist Values"PART 10: OUR SAMENESS, OUR DIFFERENCE*Schlesinger, Jr.: "The Cult of Ethnicity -- Good or Bad"Barnlund: "Communication in a Global Village" *Carroll: "Minor Accidents"*Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux: "On Friendship"Louie Crew: "Thriving as an Outsider, Even an Outcast, in Smalltown America"*Bill Bradley: "The Real Lesson of L.A."Mark Singer: "Typical"Craig Wilson: "Mostly Scared: Handling Prejudice in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" *Karen Kampf: "Crossing Bridges" (student essay)

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