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CONTENTS
Preface for Instructors
Alternative Tables of Contents
By Rhetorical Mode
By Purpose
By Theme
By Clusters and Paired Readings
By Chronological Order
Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process
Documentation Guide
THE READINGS [* represents readings new to this edition]
AI WEIWEI, The Refugee Crisis Isn’t About Refugees. It’s About Us.
MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation
GLORIA ANZALDÚA, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
BARBARA LAZEAR ASCHER, On Compassion
JAMES BALDWIN, Notes of a Native Son
*JOHN PAUL BRAMMER, How to Eat a Rattlesnake
SANDRA CISNEROS, Only Daughter
ELI CLARE, Clearcut: Explaining the Distance
TA-NEHISI COATES, The Paranoid Style of American Policing
SAMUEL COHEN, Patriot Days
*THOMAS DAI, Southings
*SAHAR DELIJANI, Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English: On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another
JOAN DIDION, On Keeping a Notebook
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write
*EMILY DRABINSKI, From the Word to the World
LARS EIGHNER, On Dumpster Diving
STEPHANIE ERICSSON, The Ways We Lie
JEN GANN, Wrongful Birth
*ROSS GAY, Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved?
*DIANAGOETSCH, Mother’s Day
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES, America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation
*WILL HUNT, Ghost River
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence
*LACY JOHNSON, White Trash Primer
WALTER JOHNSON, Guns in the Family
*JOSEPH JONES, AI Doesn’t Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do.
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER, The Council of Pecans
*JAMAICA KINCAID, On Seeing England for the First Time
STEPHEN KING, Reading to Write
*ANDREW LELAND, How to Be Blind
AUDRE LORDE, The Fourth of July
*MICHAEL P. LYNCH, Do We Really Understand Fake News?
NANCY MAIRS, On Being a Cripple
MATTHEW J. X. MALADY, The Ghosts in Our Machines
*LYDIA MILLET, Endlings
TOMMY ORANGE, Indian Heads
GEORGE ORWELL, Shooting an Elephant
*ALISSA QUART, Can We Put an End to America’s Most Dangerous Myth?
MIKE ROSE, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
BRENT STAPLES, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal
AMY TAN, Mother Tongue
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience
*MIYA TOKUMITSU, In the Name of Love
*SOJOURNER TRUTH, Ain’t I A Woman?
JERALD WALKER, Breathe
VIRGINIA WOOLF, Professions for Women
MICHELLE ZAUNER, Crying in H Mart
Glossary of Writing Terms