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College Writing I: Class Matters and Structures of Inequality
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Below you will find links to the readings marked Online in your syllabus; this page serves as our e-reserve. Please note that the readings are available in PDF format.

9/9 Yezierska, Anna. 1998. "Soap and Water," in Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, 5th Edition, Knepler et al, eds. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

9/11 Alexie, Sherman. 2003. "Indian Education," in Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, Anne Knopler et al, eds. New York: Longman.

10/5 Eighner, Lars. 1998. "On Dumpster Diving," in Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, 5th Edition, Knepler et al, eds. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

10/7 Newton, Esther. 2000. "High School Crack-Up," from her Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas. Durham: Duke University Press.

10/14 Tan, Amy. 2003. "Mother Tongue," in Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, Anne Knopler et al, eds. New York: Longman. Pp. 409-413.
10/14 Jordan, June. 1997. "Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan," in The Writer's Presence (2nd Edition), Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan, eds. Boston: Bedford Books.

10/19 Bakdash, Tarif, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. 2005. "Is It Ethical for Patients with Renal Disease to Purchase Kidneys from the World's Poor?" in Public Libary of Science Medicine 3:10 (October 2005), pp. 1699-1702.

10/21 Brandt, Barbara. 1998. "Less is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours," in in Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, 5th Edition, Knepler et al, eds. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

10/23 Dickey, Sara. 2002. "Anjali's Prospects: Class Mobility in Urban India," in Everyday Life in South Asia, Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb, Eds. Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press. Pp. 214-228.

10/28 Gladwell, Malcolm. 1998. "Black Like Them," in Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, 5th Edition, Knepler et al, eds. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

10/30 Ehrenriech, Barbara, and Annette Fuentes. 2005. "Life on the Global Assembly Line," in Life in Society. Boston: Pearson.

11/6 Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1997. "Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Brazil" in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy, Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo, eds. New York: Routledge.

11/16 Foucault, Michel (tr. Alan Sheridan). 1995. "The Means of Correct Training," in his Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books. Pp. 195-228.

11/18 Martin, Emily. 1992. "Menstruation, Work, and Class," in her The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon Press.

11/20 Kozol, Jonathan. 1991. "The Savage Inequalities of Public Education in New York," in his Savage Inequalities. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers.

11/23 Foucault, Michel (tr. Alan Sheridan). 1995. "Docile Bodies" in his Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books. Pp. 135-169.
11/23 Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, and Daniel Hoffman. 1998. "Brazilian Apartheid: Street Kids and the Struggle for Urban Space," in Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 352-351.

11/30 Foucault, Michel (tr. Alan Sheridan). 1995. "Panopticism" in his Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books. Pp. 195-228.

12/2 Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. "Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs," in her Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pp. 128-166.

12/4 Bourgois, Philippe. 2003. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press. "Introduction," pp. 1-18,

12/9 Bourgois, Philippe. 2003. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press. "'Goin' Legit:' Disrespect and Resistance at Work," pp.114-173.

Optional Reading (lens essay example): Bartky, Sandra Lee. 1998. "Foucualt, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchial Power," in The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior, Rose Weitz, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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