Cover: Rereading America, 13th Edition by Gary Colombo; Uzzie T. Cannon; Robert Cullen; Bonnie Lisle

Rereading America

Thirteenth Edition  ©2026 Gary Colombo; Uzzie T. Cannon; Robert Cullen; Bonnie Lisle Formats: E-book, Print

Authors

  • Headshot of Gary Colombo

    Gary Colombo

    Gary Colombo is professor emeritus of English and ESL at Los Angeles City College. He has also published Mind Readings: An Anthology for Writers (2002), and with Bonnie Lisle and Sandra Mano, Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling and College Writing (1997), both for Bedford/St. Martins.

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    Robert Cullen

    Robert Cullen is professor emeritus of English at San Jose State University, where he taught a wide range of courses in writing, rhetoric, composition pedagogy, and American literature..

  • Headshot of Bonnie Lisle

    Bonnie Lisle

    Bonnie Lisle teaches in the UCLA Writing Programs. With Gary Colombo and Sandra Mano, she is the author of Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling, and College Writing (Bedford/St. Martins, 1997).

  • Headshot of Uzzie Cannon

    Uzzie Cannon

    Uzzie T. Cannon is Associate Dean, Foundational Learning, at Howard Community College.She earned a Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she specialized in African American Literature and Composition and Pedagogy. She went on to earn a second M.A. in Digital Humanities from Loyola University Chicago.

    As a teaching scholar, Dr. Cannon enjoys teaching first-year composition, where she sharpens students’ critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. In her literary research, she explores the intersection of race, gender, and narrative form in contemporary African American fiction. She has published in journals such as African American Review and CEA Critic and has published book chapters on Black masculinity.

    Dr. Cannon also loves building digital humanities tools and applications for research in the humanities. When not teaching or writing, she loves to travel and to create black-and-white images in photography.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1. Equal Protection: The Myth of Justice
  • Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
  • Meredith Broussard, Machine Fairness and the Justice System
  • Dina Gilio-Whitaker, The Land Before Laws
  • Sheryll Cashin, Loving Beyond Boundaries
  • Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco, How Immigrants Become “Other”
Chapter 2. Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment
  • John Taylor Gatto, Against School
  • Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones, Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City
  • Tara Westover, Freshman Year
  • Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Coddling Fragility
  • John Agresto, A Liberal Education in Its Fullness
Chapter 3. The Wired West: Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier
  • Joy Buolamwini, AI Is Not Neutral
  • Jean M. Twenge, Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?
  • Sam Dean and Johana Bhuiyan, Why Are Black and Latino People Still Kept Out of the Tech Industry?
  • Bruce Schneier, How We Sold Our Souls—and More—to the Internet Giants
  • Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
  • Yuval Noah Harari, AI Enters the Information Chain
  • Tatiana Schlossberg, The Tech We Throw Away
Chapter 4. Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity
  • Gregory Mantsios, Class in America
  • Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton, From a Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America
  • Richard Reeves, Opportunity Hoarding
  • Morgan Housel, Luck and Risk
  • Jia Tolentino, The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death
  • Jennifer M. Silva, Adulthood: When the Struggle Becomes Real
Chapter 5. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender
  • Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree, How to Do Gender
  • Allan G. Johnson, From The Gender Knot: “Patriarchy”
  • Gina Rippon, The Gendered Waters in Which We Swim—The Pink and Blue Tsunami
  • Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  • Julia Serano, Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement
  • Ruth Padawer, Sisterhood Is Complicated
  • Ellen K. Pao, From Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Chapter 6. Created Equal: Myths of Race
  • Isabel Wilkerson, The Emergence of Caste in America
  • Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, Theories and Constructs of Race
  • Ibram X. Kendi, Definitions
  • Robin DiAngelo, How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?
  • Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin, The Reality of Asian American Oppression
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Myths About Native Americans
  • Erika Lee, Islamophobia

Product Updates

Fresh, timely readings bring new voices and perspectives to key issues: 

  • Judith Butler takes on anti-gender rhetoric, while John Agresto defends the value of a liberal arts education.

  • Meredith Broussard and Joy Buolamwini reveal how AI can reinforce bias and threaten justice.

  • Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt question whether shielding students from tough ideas helps or harms, and Richard Reeves exposes how privilege shapes access to top schools.

  • Ashley Shew challenges the idea that tech should “fix” disabilities instead of supporting real needs.

  • Jennifer Silva explores the struggles of adulthood today, while Jia Tolentino uncovers the hidden costs of hustle culture.takes on anti-gender rhetoric. 

Authors

  • Headshot of Gary Colombo

    Gary Colombo

    Gary Colombo is professor emeritus of English and ESL at Los Angeles City College. He has also published Mind Readings: An Anthology for Writers (2002), and with Bonnie Lisle and Sandra Mano, Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling and College Writing (1997), both for Bedford/St. Martins.

  • Headshot of Robert Cullen

    Robert Cullen

    Robert Cullen is professor emeritus of English at San Jose State University, where he taught a wide range of courses in writing, rhetoric, composition pedagogy, and American literature..

  • Headshot of Bonnie Lisle

    Bonnie Lisle

    Bonnie Lisle teaches in the UCLA Writing Programs. With Gary Colombo and Sandra Mano, she is the author of Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling, and College Writing (Bedford/St. Martins, 1997).

  • Headshot of Uzzie Cannon

    Uzzie Cannon

    Uzzie T. Cannon is Associate Dean, Foundational Learning, at Howard Community College.She earned a Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she specialized in African American Literature and Composition and Pedagogy. She went on to earn a second M.A. in Digital Humanities from Loyola University Chicago.

    As a teaching scholar, Dr. Cannon enjoys teaching first-year composition, where she sharpens students’ critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. In her literary research, she explores the intersection of race, gender, and narrative form in contemporary African American fiction. She has published in journals such as African American Review and CEA Critic and has published book chapters on Black masculinity.

    Dr. Cannon also loves building digital humanities tools and applications for research in the humanities. When not teaching or writing, she loves to travel and to create black-and-white images in photography.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1. Equal Protection: The Myth of Justice
  • Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
  • Meredith Broussard, Machine Fairness and the Justice System
  • Dina Gilio-Whitaker, The Land Before Laws
  • Sheryll Cashin, Loving Beyond Boundaries
  • Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco, How Immigrants Become “Other”
Chapter 2. Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment
  • John Taylor Gatto, Against School
  • Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones, Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City
  • Tara Westover, Freshman Year
  • Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Coddling Fragility
  • John Agresto, A Liberal Education in Its Fullness
Chapter 3. The Wired West: Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier
  • Joy Buolamwini, AI Is Not Neutral
  • Jean M. Twenge, Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?
  • Sam Dean and Johana Bhuiyan, Why Are Black and Latino People Still Kept Out of the Tech Industry?
  • Bruce Schneier, How We Sold Our Souls—and More—to the Internet Giants
  • Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
  • Yuval Noah Harari, AI Enters the Information Chain
  • Tatiana Schlossberg, The Tech We Throw Away
Chapter 4. Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity
  • Gregory Mantsios, Class in America
  • Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton, From a Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America
  • Richard Reeves, Opportunity Hoarding
  • Morgan Housel, Luck and Risk
  • Jia Tolentino, The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death
  • Jennifer M. Silva, Adulthood: When the Struggle Becomes Real
Chapter 5. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender
  • Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree, How to Do Gender
  • Allan G. Johnson, From The Gender Knot: “Patriarchy”
  • Gina Rippon, The Gendered Waters in Which We Swim—The Pink and Blue Tsunami
  • Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  • Julia Serano, Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement
  • Ruth Padawer, Sisterhood Is Complicated
  • Ellen K. Pao, From Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Chapter 6. Created Equal: Myths of Race
  • Isabel Wilkerson, The Emergence of Caste in America
  • Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, Theories and Constructs of Race
  • Ibram X. Kendi, Definitions
  • Robin DiAngelo, How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?
  • Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin, The Reality of Asian American Oppression
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Myths About Native Americans
  • Erika Lee, Islamophobia

Product Updates

Fresh, timely readings bring new voices and perspectives to key issues: 

  • Judith Butler takes on anti-gender rhetoric, while John Agresto defends the value of a liberal arts education.

  • Meredith Broussard and Joy Buolamwini reveal how AI can reinforce bias and threaten justice.

  • Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt question whether shielding students from tough ideas helps or harms, and Richard Reeves exposes how privilege shapes access to top schools.

  • Ashley Shew challenges the idea that tech should “fix” disabilities instead of supporting real needs.

  • Jennifer Silva explores the struggles of adulthood today, while Jia Tolentino uncovers the hidden costs of hustle culture.takes on anti-gender rhetoric. 
For more than three decades, Rereading America has empowered students to question the myths that dominate American culture—and their own place within it. The 13th edition continues that mission with a timely collection of diverse, provocative readings on justice, education, technology, success, gender, and race. Blending academic and personal voices—from Mike Rose to Jia Tolentino to Isabel Wilkerson—the anthology invites students to think and write analytically about ideas they may have accepted previously.

Anchored by a critical thinking framework, Rereading America provides extensive pedagogical support in each chapter, including prereading activities, visual portfolios, and questions that prompt students to explore key themes across readings. Thought-provoking post-reading questions encourage close analysis as well as connections to outside sources, personal experience, and independent research. The introduction illustrates the process of active reading while also explaining the book’s pedagogical approach.

The new edition introduces fresh selections on topics such as AI, opportunity hoarding, the liberal arts, and the gig economy—offering students relevant, challenging content to help them break through conventional assumptions and patterns of thought. 

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