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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 | |