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Preface for Instructors | |
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Introduction for Students: Crossing Cultures, Reading Actively, and Thinking Critically | |
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Identifying Ourselves | |
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Observations | |
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A Short Quiz (United States) | |
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The Mulatto Millennium (United States) | |
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Two Kinds (United States/China) (Fiction) | |
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Quinceanera (United States/Mexico) | |
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The Art of the Fiesta (Mexico) | |
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One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification (Australia/Great Britain) | |
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The Westernization of the World (Great Britain/World) | |
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African Literature: What Tradition? (South Africa) | |
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A View from Canada (Canada) | |
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Imaginary Homelands (India/Great Britain) | |
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Families | |
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Observations | |
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Making Babies (United States) | |
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From Death to Divorce (United States) | |
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Stone Soup (United States) | |
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Limerick Homecoming (Ireland) | |
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Birth Ceremonies (Guatemala) | |
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Nigerian Childhood (Nigeria) | |
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Grave Matters at Monticello (United States) | |
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Family Secrets (United States) | |
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Acquiring a Japanese Family (Japan) | |
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A Family Supper (Japan) (Fiction) | |
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Turning Points | |
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Observations | |
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Mary (United States) | |
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The Stolen Party (Argentina) (Fiction) | |
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So Tsi-fai (Hong Kong) | |
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Imperiled Men (United States) | |
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Achates McNeil (United States) (Fiction) | |
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The New Lost Generation (United States/France) | |
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Europe Once Gripped America's Imagination--Now It's the Other Way Around (United States/Europe) | |
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The New Europeans: Multilingual, Cosmopolitan, Borderless (Europe) | |
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Where Do Whites Fit In? (South Africa) | |
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The Three Jobs of the Future (United States) | |
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Opposite Sexes | |
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Observations | |
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The Disposable Rocket (United States) | |
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Your Life as a Girl (United States) (Fiction) | |
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Woman and Nature (United States) | |
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Man and WOMAN (United States) | |
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Woman as Other (France) | |
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The Chase (Italy) (Fiction) | |
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How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently (United States) | |
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Nisa's Marriage (Botswana) | |
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Muslims, the First Feminists (Arabia) | |
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A Dirty Story (Turkey) (Fiction) | |
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Myth and Magic | |
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Observations | |
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Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction (United States) | |
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What Makes Superman So Darned American? (United States) | |
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Digging into Your Heart (United States) | |
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Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace (United States) | |
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From Beloved (United States) (Fiction) | |
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Caste Hate, and Murder, Outlast Indian Reforms (India) | |
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The Gentleman (Greece/Great Britain) | |
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The Writer and His Community (Nigeria) | |
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Clarisa (Chile) (Fiction) | |
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Dreams for Hire (Colombia/Cuba) | |
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People and Power | |
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Observations | |
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Future Shlock (United States) | |
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Yearnings (China) | |
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The Day After Technology (Russia) | |
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Between Word and Picture (Israel/Germany) | |
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Still Grieving over the Loss of the Land (United States) | |
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Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave It (United States) | |
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The Talented Tenth (United States) | |
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Black Man in a White Court (South Africa) | |
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Six Days: Some Rememberings (United States) | |
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Down the Clinical Disco (Great Britain) (Fiction) | |
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Georgaphical Index | |
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Rhetorical Index | |
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Index of Authors and Titles | |
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Map of the World Identifying Countries Treated in Selections | |