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PART I. ENCOUNTERING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. 1. Language and Gender. Brief Encounters: Rosalie Maggio, Sexist Language. Cyra McFadden, In Defense of Gender. Robin Lakoff, Women's Language and Men's Language. Main Selections: Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism in English: A l990s Update Eugene R. August, Real Men Don't: Anti-Male Bias in English Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? Joanna Russ, When It Changed. 2. Language and Stereotypes.Brief Encounters: Paul Greenberg, 'Redneck' Is Not a Dirty Word Art Carey, White Guys William Raspberry, Black and White Haig A. Bosmajian, The Dehumanization of the Indian. Main Selections: Ward Churchill, The Indian Chant and the Tomahawk Chop Charles F. Berlitz, The Etymoloy of the International Insult Nancy Masterson Sakamoto, Conversational Ballgames Amy Tan, The Language of Discretion Valerie Matsumoto, Two Deserts. 3. Language and Social Power.Brief Encounters: John Simon, Good English Michelle Cliff, No Reggae Spoken Here Raymond Williams, Dialect Claude Levi-Strauss, The Primary Function of Writing. Main Selections: Barbara Mellix, From Outside, In June Jordan, Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan Michael Ventura, Talkin' American 2. Kit Yuen Quan, The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing Grace Paley, The Loudest Voice. 4. Language and Bicultural Identity.Brief Encounters: Richard W. Bailey, English in the Next Decade Jane Miller, Bilingual Advantages Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma and English Sandra Cisneros, My Name. Main Selections: Jose Antonio Burciaga, Chief Wachuseh Richard Rodriguez, Public and Private Language Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue Arturo Islas, Thanksgiving Border Crossing (fiction) Nicholasa Mohr, The English Lesson. PART II. ENCOUNTERING DIVERSITY AT HOME. 5. Coming to America. Brief Encounters: Gary Snyder, Turtle Island Alexis de Tocqueville, The Founding of New England Henry David Thoreau, The Yankee and the Red Man Charles Kuralt, Different Drummers. Main Selections: Ishmael Reed, America: The Multinational Society Maxine Hong Kingston, The Wild Man of the Green Swamp Kevin Mullen, The Irish Cop Juan Cadena, It's My Country Too Tahira Naqvi, Thank God for the Jews (fiction) Robert Olen Butler, The Trip Back. 6. Ethnicity and Identity.Brief Encounters: Malgorzata Niezabitowska, Lewellen, Nebraska Ernesto Galarza, Colonia Mexicana Robert Claiborne, The WASP Stereotype Raymond Williams, Ethnic. Main Selections: Arturo Islas, Thanksgiving Border Crossing Hal Glatzer, What We Can Learn from Hawaii Alexandra Tantranon-Saur, What's Behind the 'Asian Mask'? Barbara Ehrenreich, Cultural Baggage Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Cult of Ethnicity 7. Privilege, Poverty, and Mainstream Values.Brief Encounters: Kate Simon, Workers' Utopia, The Bronx Gretel Ehrlich, The Western Code Rose Del Castillo Guilbault, Huppies. Main Selections: Phyllis McGinley, Suburbia, of Thee I Sing Julia Gilden, Warehouse Tribes: Living in the Cracks of Civilization James Baldwin, Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem Shelby Steele, On Being Black and Middle Class Holly Sklar, The Upper Class and Mothers N the Hood Louise Erdrich, American Horse. 8. Sexual Orientation and Diversity.Brief Encounters: Alice Walker, Definition of Womanist Susan Brownmiler, Feminists Robert Bly, The Soft Male Gary Kinsman, Masculinity and the Men's Movement. Main Selections: Richard Rodriguez, Family Values Edmund White, Sexual Culture Amanda Kovattana, Ten Good Reasons to Be a Lesbian Jan Clausen, My Interesting Condition David Leavitt, Territory. PART III. ENCOUNTERING GLOBAL DIVERSITY. 9. Leaving Home. Brief Encounters: Alice Bloom, The Natives in the Posters Claude Levi-Strauss, The Traveler's Dilemma P. L. Pearce, Fifteen Types of Travelers. Main Selections: Chitra Divakaruni, Tourists. Nora Reza, The Errand Mary Morris, Traveling Alone in Mexico John Updike, Venezuela for Visitors Walker Percy, Sightseer. 10. Encountering Stereotypes.Brief Encounters: Gary Althen, Stereotypes of Americans Margaret Atwood, Over the Fence in Canada Judith Stone, Stereotypes in Orbit. Main Selections: Stanley Meisler, Are the French Really Rude? Herbert Gold, Land without Jews Margaret K. Nydell, Beliefs and Values in the Arab World Lucia Berlin, Good and Bad. 11. Meeting the Third World.Brief Encounters: Raymond Williams, Native Charles Darwin, Natives of Tierra del Fuego Renato Rosaldo, The Lone Ethnographer Peter S. Adler, Five Stages of Culture Shock. Main Selections: Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Alex Haley, Return to the Land of Roots Sarah Streed, A Moroccan Memoir Paul Bowles, A Distant Episode George P. Elliott, Among the Dangs. 12. Americans in the New World Order.Brief Encounters: Raymond Williams, Western Amira Nowaira, American Foreign Aid Paul Bowles, Alcohol and Cannabis Main Selections: B. Traven, Assembly Line (fiction) R. K. Narayan, God and the Cobbler Pico Iyer, Tour of the City: Encounters between East and West Patrick Glynn, The Age of Balkanization Noam Chomsky, A View from Below.
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