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Table of Contents

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Introduction: Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths
1. Equal Protection: Myths of Justice
*“The New Jim Crow,” Michelle Alexander
“The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates
“How Immigrants Become ‘Other,’” Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco
*“The Land Before Laws,” Dina Gilio-Whitaker
*Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Justice
*“Two Worlds,” Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
From Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy, Sheryll Cashin
*“The Accidental Citizen,” Parker J. Palmer

2. Learning Power: The Myth of Education and Empowerment
“Against School,” John Taylor Gatto
“‘I Just Wanna Be Average,’” Mike Rose
“Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,” Nikole Hannah-Jones
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Education and Empowerment
“Education: Attentional Disarray,” Sherry Turkle
*From Educated, Tara Westover
“Blurred Lines, Take Two,” Peggy Orenstein
“City of Broken Dreams,” Sara Goldrick-Rab

3. The Wired West: Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier
“Our Future Selves,” Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
“Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?” Jean M. Twenge
“Let’s Get Lost,” Kenneth Goldsmith
*“The Tech We Throw Away,” Tatiana Schlossberg
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Wired Culture
*“Why Are Black and Latino People Still Kept Out of the Tech Industry?” Sam Dean and Johana Bhuiyan
“How We Sold Our Souls—and More—to the Internet Giants,” Bruce Schneier
“Big Data, Google, and the End of Free Will,” Yuval Noah Harari

4. Money and Success: The Myth of Individual Opportunity
“Class in America,” Gregory Mantsios
“Serving in Florida,” Barbara Ehrenreich
“From a Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America,” Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton
From How the other Half Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Individual Opportunity
“Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption,” Diana Kendall
“Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone,” Rutger Bregman

5. True Women and Real Men: Myths of Gender
“How to Do Gender,” Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree
From The Gender Knot: “Patriarchy,” Allan G. Johnson
*“The Gendered Waters in Which We Swim--the Pink and Blue Tsunami,” Gina Rippon
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Gender
“Guys’ Club: No Faggots, Bitches, or Pussies Allowed,” Carlos Andrés Gómez
*“Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement,” Julia Serano
“Sisterhood Is Complicated,” Ruth Padawer
From Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, Ellen K. Pao

6. Created Equal: Myths of Race
“Theories and Constructs of Race,” Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe
*“Definitions,” Ibram X. Kendi
*“How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?” Robin DiAngelo
Visual Portfolio: Reading Images of Race
From Muslim Girl, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
*“The Reality of Asian American Oppression,” Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
*“Myths about Native Americans,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
“Passport to the New West,” José Orduña

Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles

Authors

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.

Uzzie T. Cannon

Uzzie T. Cannon is an Associate Professor of English at Norfolk State University. 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.

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..

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).

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