Cultural tapestry readings for a pluralistic society - Evans, Faun Bernbach; Gleason, Barbara; Wiley, Mark (New York Harper Collins, 1992)
Living in a Multicultural Society The World Is Here / Ishmael Reed -- The New Ethnicity / Michael Novak -- From a Different Shore / Ronald Takaki -- All My Grandmothers Could Sing Most Died Young / Maria Mullinaux Lemon -- The Unglamorous but Worthwhile Duties of the Black Revolutionary Artist, or of the Black Writer Who Simply Works and Writes / Alice Walker -- The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing / Kit Yuen Quan -- Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers / Deborah Tannen -- "So what do you want from us here?" / Barbara Myerhoff -- The American Dream and the Politics of Inclusion / Mario Cuomo -- Facing New Worlds From Growing Up / Russell Bakerm -- I'm Listening As Hard As I Can / Terry Galloway -- The Two Worlds of Edmund Perry / Robert Sam Anson -- The New Middleground / Ellen Goodman -- Along the Tortilla Curtain / Pete Hamill -- Where Do You Sleep? / Frank X. Gaspar -- One Holy Night / Sandra Cisneros -- The Mambo Kings / Oscar Hijuelos -- Community Life -- The Meanings of Community / Thomas Bender -- Liberty Baptist / Frances FitzGerald -- "Gettin' On" in Roadville / Shirley Brice Heath -- A Loaf of Bread / James Alan McPherson -- Down Home: A Landscape of Small Ruins / V. S. Naipaul -- Community and Equality in Conflict / J. Anthony Lukas -- A Working Community / Ellen Goodman -- The Futility of Global Thinking / Wendell Berry -- The Ten Commandments of a Quality Community / Richard D. Lamm -- Our Environments --Where Is the Midwest? / Susan Wintsch -- Nebraska / William Wallis -- Too Much, Too Blindly, Too Fast / Edward Hoagland -- New York / Edward Field -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Owning It All / William Kittredge -- Navajo Natural Resources / Peter MacDonald -- Owl vs. Man / Ted Gup -- From Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- Silent Spring and the Committee Staff Report / Jamie L. Whitten -- Seven Amish Farms / Wendell Berry -- Chicken / Garrison Keillor -- Asian Girls: A Cultural Tug of War / David Haldane -- Lost Sister / Cathy Song -- Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds / Amy Tan -- What Happened to the Family? / Jerrold Footlick, Elizabeth Leonard -- True Blue / Lynn Darling -- The American Father / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Who's Bad? / Itabari Njeri -- Mothers, Sons and the Gangs / Sue Horton --, Teaching and Learning: The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society / Jonathan Kozol -- Crossing Boundaries / Mike Rose -- Education of Blacks / H. Kenneth Bechtel -- The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Popular Education / Agnes Repplier -- The Teacher / Tom Romano -- Connected Teaching / Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule -- Think About It / Frank Conroy -- Prejudice and Oppression -- Prejudice / Peter Rose -- We Are Outcasts / Monica Sone -- It's Ten O'Clock and I Worry About Where My Husband Is / Rosemary Bray -- Across The Lines / Tracy Chapman -- I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent? / Shelby Steele -- Campus Racism / Walter Williams -- The Library Card / Richard Wright -- Why Young Women Are More Conservative / Gloria Steinem -- Letter from a Friend: A Conservative Speaks Out for Gay Rights / "John Woolman" -- Images of Ourselves: Media and the Arts: Negative News and Little Else / David Shaw -- The Entertaining of America / John Leo -- Music / Allan Bloom -- The New Literacy / Robert Pattison -- White Boys Dancing / Michael Ventura -- Curbing the Sexploitation Industry / Tipper Gore -- Memorabilia That Have Perpetuated Stereotypes About African-Americans / Kenneth Goings -- Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self / Alice Walker -- The Black Writer and the Magic of the Word / John Wideman -- Harvesting Our Differences: Toward Something American / Peter Marin -- Both My Grandmothers / Edward Field -- Rose Hsu Jordan: Half and Half / Amy Tan -- Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures / Diane Ravitch -- Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity / Adrienne Rich -- I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. --"The Most Essential Documents" / Michael Ventura -- The Worn Path / Eudora Welty -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Ethnicity; Pluralism (Social sciences)