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This compact text-reader offers 46 brief selections (primarily essays, but also short stories and poetry) that focus on connections across our nation's cultures. Part One is a solid introduction to the reading and writing processes, including a clear explanation of ways to develop an essay, with models of student writing; Part Two is an anthology divided into seven themes, each introduced by a pair of photographs.

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• What Does It Mean to Think in Cultural Contexts?
• Part I Critical Reading and Writing
• 1 Critical Reading and Thinking: Recognizing Cultural Contexts What Is Culture?
• Why Read and Think in Cultural Contexts?
• Strategies for Reading and Thinking across Cultures
• 2 Reading to Respond The Process of Responding
• Responding by Making Marginal Notes
• Responding by Writing Journal Entries
• 3 Reading to Understand Understanding Unfamiliar Words
• Summarizing to Understand the Main Idea and Supporting Ideas
• Reading to Understand Inferences
• 4 Reading to Evaluate Understanding the Distinctions: Response
• Summary, Inference, and Evaluation
• Establishing Criteria for Evaluating
• Using Criteria to Evaluate: Journal Entries
• Using Criteria to Evaluate: Discussions
• Summary: A Critical Reading Process
• 5 A Writing Process Writing for a Purpose
• Developing a Writing Process
• A Sample Writing Process
• Part II Anthology
• 6 Arrivals, Roots, and Memories Mary Antin, The Promised Land
• The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts
• The Education of Berenice Belizaire
• Crossing the Border
• Fitting In
• Parish Streets
• Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Son From America
• 7 Families Tran Thinga, Letter to My Mother
• From Father, with Love
• Like Mexicans
• Marriage as a Restricted Club
• Mothers, Sons, and the Gangs
• Poem: Midterm Break
• 8 Questions of Language Janice Castro with DanCook and Cristina Garcia, Spanglish
• A Question of Language
• Zipped Lips
• Chang Rae Lee, Mute in an English-Only World
• Words That Hurt, Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well
• Poems: Three Poems on Words
• 9 Ways of Learning Jacques D'Amboise, I Show a Child What Is Possible
• What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
• Finishing School
• The Teacher Who Changed My Life
• "I Just Wanna Be Average"
• Prison Studies
• Fiction: The Loudest Voice
• 10 Health: Mind and Body Paul Aronowitz, A Brother's Dreams
• Going Home
• Give Us Jobs, Not Admiration
• The War on Drinks
• The Discus Thrower
• Nurses In Vietnam
• Fiction: The Use of Force
• 11 Women and Men Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space
• How Boys Become Men
• The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
• "Real" Men and Women
• Unfair Game
• The Men We Carry in Our Minds ... and How They Differ from the Real Lives of Most Men
• Fiction: Kate Chopin, The Storm
• 12 Choices, Actions, and the Future Charles Krauthammer, Of Headless Mice ... and Men
• Surfing's Up and Grades Are Down
• Modern Courtesy
• Illegal Motives
• There's No Future in Lady Luck
• Safe-Sex and White Lies in the Time of AIDS
• Fiction: Harrison Bergeron Glossary of Terms Subject and Title
• Index