section 1: Differences, conflicts and resolutions -- The people of America / Saul Alinksy -- Fear and danger / Paul Kivel -- The African diaspora and the genetic unity of modern humans / Steve Olson -- The founding Indian fathers / Jack Weatherford -- Kong at the seaside / Arnold Zweig. section 2: The construction of personal identity in a diverse society -- The complexity of identity: "Who am I?" / Beverly Daniel Tatum -- Edwin left behind / Sören Wuerth -- Origins / Barack Obama -- Privilege in black and white / Na'im Akbar -- The salad lady / Rawi Hage. section 3: Perspectives on the immigrant experience and nativism -- Barefoot heart: stories of a migrant child / Elva Treviño Hart -- Case study: Hoang Vinh / Sonia Nieto -- Arrival stories and acculturation / Mary Pipher -- Scrimmage on the border / Michael Scherer -- Dyaspora / Joanne Hyppolite. section 4: Challenges for linguistically and culturally diverse people -- English in a multicultural America / Dennis Baron -- Late entry, early exit / Earl Shorris -- Maintaining bilingualism and cultural awareness / Irene Villanueva -- Oral traditions / Shirley Brice Heath -- Working with Latino and Latina students / Aurora Cedillo -- Human mathematics / Mamle Kabu. section 5: Perspectives on religious diversity and intolerance -- The framers and the faithful / Steve Waldman -- The morning after the morning after / Michelle Fine -- Atheism and the pursuit of happiness / Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman -- Afraid of ourselves / Diana Eck -- A letter to my great-grandfather / Warren J. Blumenfeld -- The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy. section 6: Perspectives on race and confronting racism -- Brave warrior / Karen Coody Cooper -- Starting over / Nathan McCall -- Unmasking the myth of the model minority / Benji Chang and Wayne Au -- The new racial reality / Ellis Cose -- Like crabs in a barrel: why inter-ethnic anti-racism matters now / George Lipsitz -- Crime / Danny Romero. section 7: Perspectives on classism and its consequences -- A story without an end / Lorette Schwartz-Nobel -- At the edge of poverty / David K. Shipler -- My safe haven / Miles Corwin -- There are no children here / Alex Kotlowitz -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. LeGuin. section 8: People with disabilities: facing barriers, finding allies -- Covering my tracks / Chloe Atkins -- Transgressions as deformity / Jamake Highwater -- Why I burned my book / Paul Longmore -- The challenge of being an advocate / Craig R. Fiedler -- Places where we all belong / Mara Sapon-Shevin -- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon. section 9: Perspectives on sex role stereotypes and sexism -- The myths of the backlash / Susan Faludi -- Gender in nature / Stephen Jay Gould -- Self-made man / Norah Vincent -- Why young women are more conservative / Gloria Steinem -- Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression / bell hooks -- The monkey garden / Sandra Cisneros. section 10: Perspectives on sexual orientation and heterosexism -- The mixed couple: Deborah L. Johnson and Dr. Zandra Z. Rolón / Eric Marcus -- Working my way back home / Reggie Sellars -- The perversion of homophobia / Kent Koppelman -- Appearances / Carmen Vazquez -- Convention (a play in one scene) / Dan Greenburg. section 11: Multicultural education in American schools -- Misconceptions of multicultural education / James A. Banks -- Tackling tracking / Ian McFeat -- Teachers initiating conversations about race and racism in a high school class / Jane Bolgatz -- Reflections on my use of multicultural and critical pedagogy when students are white / Christine Sleeter -- Great men and women / Jonathan Kozol. section 12: Pluralistic responses to the diversity of American society -- C.P. Ellis / Studs Terkel -- Dancing with bigotry / Donaldo Macedo and Lilia Bartolomé -- My class didn't trump my race: using oppression to face privilege / Robin J. DiAngelo -- Membership has its privileges: thoughts acknowledging and challenging whiteness / Tim Wise -- Yellow woman and the beauty of spirit / Leslie Marmon Silko.
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