Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader, 2nd Edition
Note: Each chapter begins with Critical Questions and concludes with Critical Questions Revisited. 1. Borders of Identity: Stories of the Self Anon. Hopi: The Hopi Boy and the Sun (story) Anna Deavere Smith: Fires in the Mirror (play) Robert Hass: A Story About the Body (prose poem) Thomas King: Borders Joel Gilbert/Noel Ignatiev: Who Lost an American? Abigail Trooboof: The Gravity of Pink Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Jim Mince: The Begenning of the End Paul Schellenbacher (online journal) Evelyn Lau: Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid Tara Masih: Exotic, or "What Beach Do You Hang Out On?" Frank Bidart: Ellen West (poem) 2. Borders of Community: Difference and Otherness Ruben Martinez: Going Up in LA Leonard Kriegel: Tunnel Notes of a New Yorker Kai Erickson: Collective Trauma: Loss of Communality Daniel Kemmis: The Last Best Place: How Hardship and Limits Build Community Randall Balmer: Georgia Charismatics Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives Peter Marin: Helping and Hating the Homeless David Sibley: Feelings About Difference Elizabeth Bishop: In the Waiting Room (poem) Margery Garber: Vested Interests John Hartigan: The Baseball Game Robert Berkhofer Jr.: The White Man's Indian Stuart Hall: Ethnicity: Identity and Difference Gwendolyn Brooks: We Real Cool (poem) 3. Negotiating Borders: The Dynamics of Difference Mary Louise Pratt: Arts of the Contact Zone Richard White: The Middle Ground Roger Williams: A Key into the Language of America (phrasebook) Wong Sam and Assistants: An English-Chinese Phrase Book (phrasebook) Robert Blauner: Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race Rita Dove: Arrow (poem) Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail Tim O'Brien: Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong Luis Alberto Urrea: Across the Wire Mary Gaitskill: On Not Being a Victim Lester Bangs: White Noise Supremacists Sherry Turkle: TinySex and Gender Trouble Frantz Fanon: The Facts of Blackness Art Spiegelman: MAUS: A Survivor's Tale (graphic story) Andrea Lowenstein: Confronting Stereotypes: Teaching MAUS in Crown Heights Image Portfolio 4. Imagined Borders: Frontier and Nation Myra Jehlen: Papers of Empire Alan Thomas and Ben Crow: Maps, Projections and Ethnocentricity Benedict Anderson: The Concept of "Nation": A Definition Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History Patricia Nelson Limerick: Adventures of the Frontier in the Twentieth Century Jan Tompkins: At the Buffalo Bill Museum--June 1988 Jack Jackson: Comanche Moon (graphic story) Karima Kamal: An Egyptian Girl in America Armond White: The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World Lewis H. Lapham: Who and What Is American? Ronald Takaki: A Different Mirror Agha Shahid Ali: The Correspondent (poem) 5. The World's New Borders: Beyond Nation, Beyond Place William Mitchell: Soft Cities Allucquere Rosanne Stone: Sex, Death, and Machinery, or How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis Stephen Doheny-Farina: Real Cold, Simulated Heat: Virtual Reality at the Roxy Howard Rheingold: Disinformocracy William Greider: One World: Ready or Not Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld Salman Rushdie: Yes, This Is About Islam Wen Shu Lee: One Whiteness Veils Three Uglinesses Guillermo Gomez-Pena: The '90s Culture of Xenophobia: Beyond the Tortilla Curtain K. Anthony Appiah: The Multicultural Mistake Ian Frazier: Someplace in Queens Gloria Anzaldua: La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness Benjamin Alire Saenz: In the Borderlands of Chicano Identity, There Are Only Fragments bell hooks: Love as the Practice of Freedom Audre Lorde: A Litany for Survival (poem)