50 essays : a portable anthology /

Title:

50 essays : a portable anthology /

Format:

Book

Institution:

MassArt, MCPHS Boston

Contents:

Graduation / Maya Angelou -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa -- On compassion / Barbara Lazear Ascher -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- Why don't we complain? / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- The burning desire for hot chicken / Danny Chau -- Only daughter / Sandra Cisneros -- Clearcut: Explaining the distance / Eli Claire -- The paranoid style of American policing / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- The myth of the Latin woman: I just met a girl named María / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich -- On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner -- The ways we lie / Stephanie Ericsson -- Wrongful birth / Jen Gann -- Small change: Why the revolution will not be Tweeted / Malcolm Gladwell -- What is a burrito? A primer / Jonathan Gold -- Going it alone / Rahawa Haile -- When pink ballet slippers won't do / Jenine Holmes -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- The ugly tourist / Jamaica Kincaid -- Reading to write / Stephen King -- Our vanishing night / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- The fourth of July / Audre Lorde -- On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs -- The ghosts in our machines / Matthew J. X. Malady -- Two ways to belong in America / Bharati Mukherjee -- Indian heads / Tommy Orange -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- The allegory of the cave / Plato -- "I just wanna be average" / Mike Rose -- Does truth matter? / Carl Sagan -- The sea was never blue / Maria Michela Sassi -- I like guys / David Sedaris -- Just walk on by: Black men and public space / Brent Staples -- Sex, lies & advertising / Gloria Steinem -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Last days of the rickshaw / Calvin Trillin -- The lowest animal / Mark Twain -- The refugee crisis isn't about refugees. It's about us. / Ai Weiwei -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- Slang in America / Walt Whitman -- Professions for women / Virginia Woolf -- A pet tortoise who will outlive us all / Hanya Yanigahara -- Pre-Game / Dave Zirin.

Online access:

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Library holdings:

MassArt Main
PS682 .A15 2019 – Available

MCPHS Circulation - Boston Campus
PS682 .A15 2019 – Available

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