Scott F Covell, Patricia Murray

Living in America

A Popular Cultural Reader

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Produktbeschreibung

This American popular culture reader contains over ninety current, thought-provoking selections by both student and professional writers with diverse backgrounds. The readings are organized around ten themes relevant to contemporary American society. Suggested activities follow every reading and provide opportunities for critical thinking, discussion, and writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781559349772
• ISBN-10: 1559349778
• Artikelnr.: 24517487

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. POPULAR CULTURE I: PERSONAL NARRATIVES: THE GOOD, THE RAD, AND THE HUMOROUS William Least Heat Moon, West Texas / Douglas Coupland, Our Parents Had More / Maya Angelou, Graduation / Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self / Richard Wright, The Library Card / Lois-Ann Yamanaka, The Last Dance Is Always a Slow Dance (Short Story) / Nicole Brossard, Mauve Desert / Hethur Suval, High School Psyche-out (Student Essay) / Glen McCoy, The Vietnam War: Not Very Pretty (Student Essay) / 2. POPULAR CULTURE II: GENERATION CLASH AND THE FAMILY EXPERIENCE Dan Kwong, Grandpa Story / Scott F. Covell, Gramps / Jimmy Santiago Baca, I Ask Myself, Should I Cry? Or Laugh? (Poem) / Louise Erdrich, Grandpa Nector and the Story of June
s Hanging (Short Story) / Toshio Mori, My Mother Stands on Her Head (Short Story) / N. Scott Momaday, The Last of the Kiowas / Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers
Gardens / Diane Rubio, Nana (Student Essay) / 3. POPULAR CULTURE III: AMERICA AT PLAY: VEGAS, FOOTBALL, BUNGEE JUMPING, AND MORE Benjamin Saltman, The Bungee Jumpers (Poem) / Hunter S. Thompson, Selections from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Eric Boehlert, Death in the Mosh Pit / Jerry Adler, America 2000: Fast and Furious Fun / Gretel Ehrlich, Rules of the Game: Rodeo / Philip Roth, My Baseball Years / John McMurtry, Kill
Em! Crush
Em! Eat
Em Raw! / Albert Goldman, Graceland / Maxine Hong Kingston, Wittman Ah Sing
s Halloween Play (Short Story) / Don Delillo, Shopping / Chris Hernandez, Waiting in Line All Night for Cure Tickets (Student Essay) / 4. POPULAR CULTURE IV: MEDIA MADNESS: SEX, VIOLENCE, AND ROCK AND ROLL Bob Dole, The U.S. Entertainment Industy Must Accept Responsibility for Its Work / Elaine Dutka, Steve Hochman, Rick Dubrow, Daniel Howard Cerone, and Robert W. Welkos, Sex, Violence, and Bob Dole / Holly Brubach, Rock and Roll Vaudeville / Jay McInerney, Is Seinfeld the Best Comedy Ever? / Bill McKibben, TV, Freedom and the Loss of Community / David Kronke, Disasters Just Waiting to Happen (Critical Movie Analysis) / Russell Gough, On Ethics, Money, and the Ending of
Maguire
(Critical Movie Analysis) / Wayne Rogers,
Ghosts
Reflects Noble Crusade (Critical Movie Analysis) / Gary Engle, What Makes Superman So Darned American? / Garry Wills, John Wayne
s Body / Cynthia Paco, Superman and the Duke: Duel between American Male Icons (Student Essay) / 5. POPULAR CULTURE V:
GENERATION X
: CYBERNAUTS HUNGERING FOR MORE? Lawrence Shames, The More Factor / Walter Kirn, Twentysomethings / Timothy Leary, The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot / Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace: The Future of the Computer Revolution / Shelley Donald Coolidge, Info Highway: A Long and Winding Road / Amy Harmon, Bigots on the Net / Cindie L. Keefauver, Those Who Die with the Most Toys Lose (Student Eassy) / 6. ISSUES IN AMERICA I: CULTURE CLASH AND COMMUNITY CONSCIOUSNESS Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart / Toni Morrison, A Slow Walk of Trees / Richard Rodriguez, Does America Still Exist? / Paule Marshall, From the Poets in the Kitchen / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Living in Two Cultures / Jack G. Shaheen, The Mediäs Image of Arabs / Ward Churchill, The Indian Chant and the Tomahawk Chop / Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans (Poem) / Amy Tan, Four Directions (Short Story) / Christine Willis, We Are an Old-fashioned Stew (Student Essay) / 7. ISSUES IN AMERICA II: MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE LONG ROAD TO EQUALITY Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream / William Jefferson Clinton, A New Sense of Responsibility / Ishmael Reed, America: The Multinational Society / Orlando Patterson, Hidden Dangers in the Ethnic Revival / Cathleen Decker, Affirmative Action: Why Battle Erupted / John T. McGreevy, From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man / Richard Smith, Affirmative Action: Until a Fair Society Is Realized (Student Essay) / 8. ISSUES IN AMERICA III: FEMINISM AND GENDER ISSUES: CAN
T WE ALL JUST COMMUNICATE? Sandra Cisneros, Selections from The House on Mango Street / Emily Prager, Our Barbies, Ourselves / Susan Faludi, Blame It on Feminism / Paula Gunn Allen, Where I Come From Is Like This / Robin Abcarian, Pink Does Not the Girl (or Boy) Make / Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation / Bethany Dever, Gender Roles (Student Essay) / 9. ISSUES IN AMERICA IV: POPULAR MUSIC: ROCK, RAP, AND REPRESSION Dave Barry, Parents, Children, and Music to Slaughter Cattle By / Robert Palmer, What Pop Lyrics Say to Us Today / Allan Bloom, Rock Music Has Harmed American Youth / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2 Live Crew Decoded / Tipper Gore, Rock Music Should Be Labeled / Danny Alexander, Labeling Rock Music Leads to Repression / Jesse Katz, Rap Furor: New Evil or Old Story? / Kurt Vonnegut, A Final Word on Censorship from Kurt Vonnegut / Kathleen Santaro, Censorship Follies: Was a Victory over Ice-T a Victory over Violence? (Student Essay) / 10. ISSUES IN AMERICA V: SAVING THE PLANET AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS Tom Wolfe, The Intelligent Coed
s Guide to America / Carl Sagan, The Warming of the World / Kirkpatrick Sale, The Environmental Crisis Is Not Our Fault / Robert Chianese, Sustainability / Connie Koenenn, Thinking Small in a Season of Excess / Frank Clifford, The Environmental Battle Moves into the Classroom / Carl Sagan, The Nuclear Winter / Loren Stein, Bomb Ban on the Brink / Ray Bradbury, There Will Come Soft Rains (Short Story) / Linnea Saukko, How to Poison Earth (Student Essay)