Preface for Instructors v Introduction: The Empowered Writer xxv Whats in a Name? 1(22) Whats in a Name? 2(9) Lini S. Kadaba New Names, New Identities 9(2) Justin Kaplan Anne Bernays David 11(6) Denise Sherer Jacobson Whats in a Name? Revisionist History Revisited (Student Essay) 17(6) Robert Zeis Our Clothing: Does It Matter What We Wear? 23(18) High Heels: What a Pain! 24(4) Susan Estrich You Become What You Wear 28(5) Kathleen Carlin Identity through Clothing (Student Essay) 33(8) Hobi Reader Uniform Fashions 37(4) Anne Hollander Body Image: Why Is It a Serious Issue? 41(18) Caught with a Centerfold 42(5) Jennifer Silver Im a Barbie Girl (Student Essay) 47(5) Karen Epstein In Pursuit of the Impossible Body Image 52(7) Karlene J. Robinson Selling Ugliness 56(3) Naomi Wolf Who Has It Tougher-Boys or Girls? 59(19) The ``Fragile American Girl Myth 60(5) Christina Hoff Sommers Boys Dont Cry (Student Essay) 65(5) Mark Zmarzly A Shot Against Womens Sports 70(1) Dorothy J. Samuels A Sweet Moment of Teamwork 71(7) Gail Collins What Happens to Adolescent Girls? 74(4) Mary Pipher How Important Is Group Identity? 78(21) Kicking Away Your Freedom 79(7) Meg Greenfield A Conflict of Identity 85(1) Henry Louis Gates Jr. I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew (Student Essay) 86(5) Henry Han Xi Lau Theyve Got to Be Carefully Taught 91(8) Susan Brady Konig What Good Are Role Models? 99(25) Girls n Spice: All Things Nice? 100(8) Susan J. Douglas Black Athletes on Parade 108(10) Adolph Reed Jr. Jackie Robinsons Finest Moment 116(2) Arnold Rampersad Where Have All Our Heroes Gone? (Student Essay) 118(6) Tim Mills Can We Resist Stereotypes? 124(25) The Myth of the Asian American Superstudent 125(8) Edmund Lee Kenneth Li We Are More Than Labels (Student Essay) 133(5) Bryan Garvey Stop Stereotyping Young Black Males (Student Essay) 138(3) Eric Waters Stereotyping and Racism Are Not the Same (Student Essay) 141(8) G. Stuart Englebert My First Victim 145(4) Brent Staples Can ``Op-Ads Change Your Mind? 149(17) U.S. English 150(2) The National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids 152(2) Planned Parenthood Federation of America 154(2) American Civil Liberties Union 156(2) Negative Population Growth, Inc. 158(8) Sound Reasoning or Sound Bites? 162(4) Tom Shachtman Free Expression: How Much Should We Tolerate? 166(19) A Civic Duty to Annoy 167(7) Wendy Kaminer The Growing List of Forbidden Words 173(1) Richard Dooling The Profiteering That Kills Kids 174(5) Nancy Carlsson-Paige Diane Levin How to Breed Intolerance (Student Essay) 179(6) Sara Ziegler Do Words Matter? 185(21) ``Guy Envy 186(6) M. P. Dunleavey How Words Change 191(1) Richard Lederer The N-Word and How to Use It 192(8) Bennie M. Currie Radicals: Threats or Heroes? (Student Essay) 200(6) Melissa Stein Race Relations: Is Dialogue Possible? 206(27) Colorblind 207(8) Alex Kotlowitz Listening Respectfully 214(1) Stephen L. Carter Finding a Space for Real Conversations on Race 215(6) Lani Guinier Stop the Lies 221(6) Luis J. Rodriguez Reflections on Black History Month (Student Essay) 227(6) Jason Michael The Flag: What Does It Symbolize? 233(22) Some Questions for My Senator about the Flag 234(4) Horace Freeland Judson Star-Spangled Banter 238(7) Hendrik Hertzberg A Forgotten Past (Student Essay) 245(6) Galit Sarfaty America: 2022 (Student Art) 251(4) J. Barrios The New Patriotism 252(3) Alan Wolfe Cloning: Is It Inevitable? 255(19) A Clone is Born 256(1) Gina Kolata Fear and Longing 257(5) Marc Zabludoff Our Bodies, Our Clones 262(6) Jean Bethke Elshtain Editorial Board of the Daily Egyptian Cloning: A Cautious Defense (Student Essay) 268(6) Is Affirmative Action Still Needed? 274(19) Affirmative Action: Another Name for Discrimination (Student Essay) 275(7) Andy Miller What Exactly Do We Mean by ``Affirmative Action? 280(2) Stephen Steinberg Pursuing Kings Dream (Student Essay) 282(5) Benson Cohen Affirming Affirmative Action 287(6) Bernice Powell Jackson Is the Death Penalty Necessary? 293 My Name Is Michael Ross 294 Michael Ross Voice from Death Row 302 Theresa Allen Andrea Hicks Jackson Witnessing Execution (Student Essay) 310 Abbie Gibbs Editorial Board of the Collegiate Times Death Penalty Alternatives (Student Essay) 314 The Death Penalty Makes Murderers of Us All (Student Essay) 319 John Lloyd The Morality of Retribution 322 Helen Prejean Alternate Tables of Contents: Rhetorical Patterns, Integrating Information, and Motivations for Writing The Periodicals: Information for Subscription Index of Authors and Titles