Preface for Instructor

Introduction: Reading, Writing, Research, and Class Discussion

Today's Freshman: How Do You Fit the Profile?

Student Information Form

An Overview of the Class of 2000

Selected 1996 Survey Results

More Conservative Than Predecessors

Countdown to the Millennium: What Can We Expect?

Q & A Richard Landes on the Millennium

The Millennium Looms: Do You Know What to Call the New Century?

Tim Appelo

In The News The Pending Millennium

Back to the Future

Meg Greenfield

Heaven's Gate and the Culture of Popular Millennialism

Stephen D. O'Leary

Self-Image: How Do We Feel about the Way We Look?

My Inner Shrimp

Garry Trudeau

Caught with a Centerfold

Jennifer Silver

The Price of Perfection

Robin Marantz Henig

Advertisement Obsession Fetish

Only Words: Does Language Matter?

"Guy" Envy

M. P. Dunleavey

Unspeakable Names

Richard Dooling

In The News Speaking of Disabilities

To Throw in a Lot of "Bes," or Not?

William Raspberry

Document Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Resolution on the Oakland "Ebonics" Issue

Automobiles: Do We Need Them?

Without a Car in the World

Jane Holtz Kay

Cars and Their Enemies

James Q. Wilson

In The News Car Ads Sell the Fantasy, Not Facts

Automotivational Counseling

William Hamilton

Advertisement Oldsmobile Intrigue

Gender Differences: How Real Are They?

I'm Sorry, I Won't Apologize

Deborah Tannen

In The News Is Sugar and Spice in Genes of Girls?

"Throwing Like a Girl"

James Fallows

In the Combat Zone

Leslie Marmon Silko

"I'm a Feminist, But ...": Where Is the Women's Movement Headed?

The Independent Woman (and Other Lies)

Katie Roiphe

Exchange A Feminist Redefined, with Replies

Lipstick Liberation

Yvonne Abraham

The "Fragile American Girl" Myth

Christina Hoff Sommers

Advertisement I'll Never Fight for Women's Rights

Exchange Susan Faludi and Karen Lehrman on Revisionist Feminism

Immigration: Can We Formulate a Policy?

Assimilation, American Style

Peter Salins

The Alien Nation: Debunking the Myth

Trishala Deb

Comment Lamar Smith on Immigration

Go North, Young Man

Richard Rodriguez

America's Schools: What's Wrong with Education?

Why Schools Don't Educate

John Taylor Gatto

The Feel-Good Trap

Richard Weissbourd

Cartoon A+

Education for Intimacy

Amitai Etzioni

English-Only Laws: Does America Need an Official Language?

Should English Be the Law?

Robert D. King

Comment Robert Dole on English Only

Language and American Citizens

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Double Talk

Karen Narasaki

Advertisement Why an Immigrant Heads an Organization Called U.S. English

Class War: Can the Poor Survive?

Work

William Julius Wilson

Lotteryville, USA

Kim Phillips

Q & A Fran Lebowitz on Money

The Unfinished Agenda: Race, Poverty, and Gender in America

Paul Wellstone

Comment David Whitman on Poor Whites

Speech John J. Sweeney on Working

Same Sex...Any Sex: Is Marriage Obsolete?

For Better or Worse?

Jonathan Rauch

Document The Marriage Project

Tying the Gordian Knot

Anne-Marie Cusac

Comment Thomas Sowell on Gay Marriage

Something Old, Something New

Ariel Kaminer

Speech Ed Fallon on Same-Sex Marriage

Affirmative Action: Do We Still Need It?

When Principles Get in the Way

Stanley Fish

Whose Affirmative Action?

Raymond W. Mack

Document SP-1: Resolution of the University of California Board of Regents Adopting a Policy "Ensuring Equal Treatment" of Admissions, 20 July 1995

Comment Jesse Jackson on Civil Rights

Unrepresented

Rachel F. Moran

CONFERENCE CHAPTERS

Understanding Multiracialism: Are Labels Important?

Q & A Ann Laurer Stoler on the Construction of Race

"I'm Just Who I Am" (Tiger Woods and the Melding of America)

Jack E. White

In The News Poll Finds Few Support Label of Multiracial

Under My Skin ("Don't Call Me a Person of Color")

Sunil Garg

Race Needs "Other" Option

Lylah M. Alphonse

Q & A Camille Paglia on the Tyranny of Racial Categories

The Lost Man

Douglas Preston

Document Human Remains Should Be Reburied

The Unbearable Being of Whiteness

Eric Liu

America's Mass Media and Popular Culture: How Does It Influence Us?

Blah, Blah, Blah: Is Anyone Listening?

Cynthia Crossen

Talk Is Cheap

Jill Nelson

Hate Radio

Patricia J. Williams

Local News: The Biggest Scandal on TV

Steven D. Stark

Advertisement T.V. is good

Sein of the Times

Geoffrey O'Brien

But First, A Word From Our Sponser

James B. Twitchell

View Masters: The Audience's Power over Media's Message

Nick Gillespie

Alternate Tables of Contents: Rhetorical Patterns, Integrating Information, and Motivations for Writing

The Periodicals: Information for Subscription

Index of Authors and Titles