Read more
Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students.
The book advocates acceptance of a diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets both in the readings and selected visuals that appear at the end of each chapter. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills.
List of contents
Contents
Rhetorical Contents
Preface for the Teacher
Preface for the Student
Chapter 1: Writing, the “Writing Process,” and You
Literacy Narratives
Composing Your Own Literacy Narrative
Chapter 2: Family and Community
How the Wicked Sons Were Duped, Indian Folklore
People Like Us, David Brooks
Changing My Name after Sixty Years, Tom Rosenberg
Where the Land is Stepped on, the Sky…, Trikartikaningsih Byas
We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky, Dana Wehle
Focusing on Friends, Steve Tesich
Treasures, Mahwash Shoaib
Two Lives, Shirley Geok-lin Lim
For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat
The Night I was Nobody, John Edgar Wideman
The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie
One Voice, Susan G. Madera
Solidarity, Charles Neuman
Chapter 3: Gender Issues
The Wise Daughter, Swahili Folktale
Apollo and Daphne, Greek Legend
Shrouded in Contradiction, Gelareh Asayesh
To Be a Man, Gary Soto
Man-Made Misery, Thomas M. Colicino
Why Are Gay Men So Feared? Dennis Altman
Gay, Anna Quindlen
Why Do We Hate Our Bodies? Gillianne N. Duncan
The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle, Jason Barone
He and I, Natalia Ginzburg
The Storm, Kate Chopin
Chapter 4: Education
The Bar of Gold
A View from the Bridge Cherokee Paul McDonald
Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-Rae Lee
A Letter to a Child Like Me, José Torres
Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin
The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria
Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn
The Fender-Bender, Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez
When the Simulated Patient Is For Real, Taneisha Grant
Multiple Dimensions of Love: From the Artist’s Eyes, Giovanni J. Gelardi
from Poets in the Kitchen, Paule Marshall
My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Vincent Cremona
Chapter 5: Work
My Young Men Shall Never Work, Chief Smohalla (as told by Herbert J. Spinden)
Life Stories, Michael Dorris
Why We Work, Andrew Curry
Essential Work by John Patterson
Black Hair, Gary Soto
Work Hard–Quit Right! Thomas M. Colicino
Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman
Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan
Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir
Summary
Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students.
The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets. For example, the readings in “Work,” the subject of Chapter 5, lead students to consider related subjects such as affirmative action, immigration, cultural displacement, family narratives, and definitions of success. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through “Correspondence” questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills.
