| Preface For Instructors |
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| Introduction: Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths |
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The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander |
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"More African American adults are under correctional control today--in prison or jail, on probation or parole--than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began" |
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The Case For Reparations, Tanehisi Coates |
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"An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future" |
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How Immigrants Become "Other," Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco And Carola Suarez-Orozco |
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"Unauthorized immigrants live in a parallel universe. Their lives are shaped by forces and habits that are unimaginable to many American citizens" |
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The Land Before Laws, Dina Giliowhitaker |
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"When environmentalists laud `America's best idea' and reiterate narratives about pristine national park environments, they are participating in the erasure of Indigenous peoples, thus replicating colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege" |
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Visual Portfolio Reading Images Of Justice |
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Two Worlds, Christiana Figueres And Tom Rivett-Carnac |
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"All studies you may read about the Anthropocene epoch point to the unprecedented levels of destruction that we have caused in just five decades" |
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From Loving: Interracial Intimacy In America And The Threatto White Supremacy, Sheryll Cashin |
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"Attitudes about race will also undergo exponential change in coming decades in part because countless individuals will have acquired the scar tissue of seeing how race affects a loved one or a friend" |
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The Accidental Citizen, Parker J. Palmer |
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"If `We the People' are to hold democracy's tensions in ways that reweave the civic community, we must develop habits that allow our hearts to break open and embrace diversity rather than break down and further divide us" |
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142 | (3) |
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The Myth of Education and Empowerment |
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Against School, John Taylor Gatto |
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"School has done a pretty good job of turning our children into addicts, but it has done a spectacular job of turning our children into children" |
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"I Just Wanna Be Average," Mike Rose |
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161 | (13) |
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"I was placed in the vocational track, a euphemism for the bottom level. Neither I nor my parents realized what this meant" |
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Choosing A School For My Daughter In A Segregated City, Nikole Hannah-Jones |
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"Legally and culturally, we've come to accept segregation once again. Today, across the country, black children are more segregated than they have been at any point in nearly half a century" |
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Visual Portfolio Reading Images Of Education And Empowerment |
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192 | (6) |
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Education: Attentional Disarray, Sherryturkle |
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198 | (15) |
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"Other generations passed notes, doodled, or zoned out. [ Oliver's] generation can send texts and go to Facebook. He calls his generation `lucky': `We have the awesome new power to erase boredom.'" |
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From Educated, Tara Westover |
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"I took the quiz and missed every question. That failure sat uneasily in my mind. It was the first indication of whether I would be okay, whether whatever I had in my head by way of education was enough" |
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Blurred Lines, Take Two, Peggy Orenstein |
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224 | (17) |
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"A paramedic who responded to some UC Berkeley calls told a reporter that he had personally stopped a group of these top-tier college boys as they dragged an unconscious girl out of a party `Who knows what their intentions were?' the paramedic mused" |
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City Of Broken Dreams, Sara Goldrick-Rab |
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`"Money has a lot to do with stress. People obviously start thinking, should I just stop going to school? This is a lot of money I'm paying for classes. I shouldn't be here.'" |
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264 | (3) |
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267 | (84) |
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Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier |
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Our Future Selves, Eric Schmidt And Jared Cohen |
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272 | (16) |
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"Soon everyone on Earth will be connected. With five billion more people set to join the virtual world, the boom in digital connectivity will bring gains in productivity, health, education, quality of life and myriad other avenues in the physical world" |
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Has The Smartphone Destroyed A Generation?, Jean M. Twenge |
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288 | (12) |
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"There is compelling evidence that the devices we've placed in young people's hands are having profound effects on their lives -- and making them seriously unhappy" |
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Let's Get Lost, Kenneth Goldsmith |
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300 | (16) |
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"I think it's time to drop the simplistic guilt about wasting time on the Internet and instead begin to explore--and perhaps even celebrate--the complex possibilities that lay before us" |
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The Tech We Throw Away, Tatiana Schlossberg |
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"But most of the e-waste in the US isn't recycled, and the same is true for the rest of the world. Globally, nearly 70 percent of e-waste is unaccounted for, meaning that it doesn't end up in formal recycling centers" |
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Reading Images Of Wired Culture |
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323 | (6) |
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Why are black and Latino People Still Kept Out Of The Tech Industry?, Sam Dean And Johana Bhuiyan |
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329 | (5) |
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"The industry, which prides itself on agility, has failed to move the needle on workplace diversity" |
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How We Sold Our Souls--And More--To The Internet Giants, Bruce Schneier |
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"It's the location of your phone, who you're talking to and what you're saying, what you're searching and writing. Corporations gather, store, and analyze this data, often without our consent. We may not like to admit it, but we are under mass surveillance" |
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Big Data, Google, And The End Of Free Will, Yuval Noah Harari |
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"Proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data and believe that humanity's cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system--and then merge into it" |
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348 | (3) |
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351 | (106) |
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The Myth of Individual Opportunity |
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Class In America, Gregory Mantsios |
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357 | (21) |
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"From cradle to grave, class position has a significant impact on our well-being" |
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Serving In Florida, Barbara Ehrenreich |
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"I had gone into this venture in the spirit of science, to test a mathematical proposition, but somewhere along the line, in the tunnel vision imposed by long shifts and relentless concentration, it became a test of myself, and clearly I have failed" |
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From A Tangle Of Pathology To A Race-Fair America, Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity Jr., And Darrick Hamilton |
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"What explains the marked and persistent racial gaps in employment and wealth? Is discrimination genuinely of only marginal importance in America today?" |
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From How The Other Half Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran |
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"Approximately 70 million Americans do not have a bank account or access to traditional financial services. That is more people than live in California, New York, and Maryland combined" |
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Reading Images Of Individual Opportunity |
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417 | (8) |
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Framing Class, Vicarious Living, And Conspicuous Consumption, Diana Kendall |
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"The poor do not fare well on television entertainment shows, where writers typically represent them with one-dimensional, bedraggled characters standing on a street comer holding cardboard signs that read `Need money for food.'" |
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Why We Should Give Free Money To Everyone, Rutger Bregman |
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443 | (13) |
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"It is now within our means to take the next step in the history of progress: to give each and every person the security of a basic income" |
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5 True Women And Real Men |
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457 | (116) |
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How to Do Gender, Lisa Wade And Myra Marx Ferree |
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"Somewhere between reaching out to learn the rules [ and] learning what rules were `made to be broken,' we manage to develop a way of doing gender that works for us" |
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From The Gender Knot:"Patmarchy," Allan G. Johnson |
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"We cannot avoid participating in patriarchy. It was handed to us the moment we come into the world. But we can choose how to participate in it" |
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The Gendered Waters In Which We Swim--The Pink And Blue Tsunami, Gina Rippon |
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"What it all comes down to is the debate as to whether pinkification is signaling a natural biological divide or reflecting a socially constructed coding mechanism" |
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Visual Portfolio Reading Images Of Gender |
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516 | (7) |
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Guys' Club: No Faggots, Bitches, Or Pussies Allowed, Carlos Andres Gomez |
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523 | (11) |
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"I want more than this narrow slice of humanity I've been given permission to taste. I'm tired of needing to throw hurtful words like `faggot' or `bitch' or `pussy' around to prove that I'm a man" |
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Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex And Gender Entitlement, Julia Serano |
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"For me, the hardest part about being trans has not been the discrimination or ridicule that I have faced for defying societal gender norms, but rather the internal pain I experienced when my subconscious and conscious sexes were at odds with one another" |
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Sisterhood Is Complicated, Ruth Padawer |
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"Where should Wellesley draw a line, if a line should even be drawn? At trans men? At transmasculine students? What about students who are simply questioning their gender?" |
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From Reset: My Fight For Inclusion And Lasting Change, Ellen K. PAO |
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560 | (12) |
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"The system is designed to keep us out. These are rooms full of white heterosexual men who want to keep acting like rooms full of white heterosexual men" |
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573 | (114) |
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Theories And Constructs Of Race, Linda Holtzman And Leon Sharpe |
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580 | (15) |
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"While race itself is fiction, the consequences of racism are a historical and contemporary fact of American life" |
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Definitions, Ibram X. Kendi |
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"Once we have a solid definition of racism and antiracism, we can start to make sense of the racialized world around us, before us" |
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How does race shape the lives of white people?, Robin Diangelo |
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606 | (17) |
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"My psychosocial development was inculcated in a white supremacist culture in which I am in the superior group" |
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Visual Portfolio Reading Images Of Race |
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From Muslim Girl, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh |
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"I was suddenly confronted by my own suffocating vulnerability: the intense self-realization that, among the three of us, I was the only one wearing a headscarf--the only one `visibly' Muslim" |
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The Reality Of Asian American Oppression, Rosalind S. Chou And Joe R. Feagin |
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641 | (14) |
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"Although sometimes played out in supposedly humorous presentations, continuing media-reproduced stereotypes of Asians and Pacific Islanders include old white-framed notions of them as odd, foreign, un-American, relatively unassimilated, or culturally inferior" |
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Myths About Native Americans, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz And Dina Gilio-Whitaker |
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"Seen through the lens of settler colonialism, blood quantum is the ultimate tool of Native elimination, but when tribes themselves employ it, it is self-imposed erasure" |
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Passport To The New West, Jose Orduna |
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"In this border region, the horizon between natural violence and state violence has been collapsed. The arid climate, the flash floods, the diamondbacks, the mountain impasses, the distance, and the heat of the sun have all been weaponized. This is murder without a murderer" |
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| Index Of Authors Andtitles |
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