CONTENTS Preface for Instructors Alternative Tables of Contents By Rhetorical Mode By Purpose By Theme By Clusters and Paired Readings By Chronological Order Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process Documentation Guide THE READINGS [* represents readings new to this edition] AI WEIWEI, The Refugee Crisis Isn't About Refugees. It's About Us. MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation GLORIA ANZALDÚA, How to Tame a Wild Tongue BARBARA LAZEAR ASCHER, On Compassion JAMES BALDWIN, Notes of a Native Son *JOHN PAUL BRAMMER, How to Eat a Rattlesnake SANDRA CISNEROS, Only Daughter ELI CLARE, Clearcut: Explaining the Distance TA-NEHISI COATES, The Paranoid Style of American Policing SAMUEL COHEN, Patriot Days *THOMAS DAI, Southings *SAHAR DELIJANI, Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English: On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another JOAN DIDION, On Keeping a Notebook FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write *EMILY DRABINSKI, From the Word to the World LARS EIGHNER, On Dumpster Diving STEPHANIE ERICSSON, The Ways We Lie JEN GANN, Wrongful Birth *ROSS GAY, Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I've Loved? *DIANAGOETSCH, Mother's Day NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES, America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation *WILL HUNT, Ghost River ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How It Feels to Be Colored Me THOMAS JEFFERSON, The Declaration of Independence *LACY JOHNSON, White Trash Primer WALTER JOHNSON, Guns in the Family *JOSEPH JONES, AI Doesn't Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do. ROBIN WALL KIMMERER, The Council of Pecans *JAMAICA KINCAID, On Seeing England for the First Time STEPHEN KING, Reading to Write *ANDREW LELAND, How to Be Blind AUDRE LORDE, The Fourth of July *MICHAEL P. LYNCH, Do We Really Understand Fake News? NANCY MAIRS, On Being a Cripple MATTHEW J. X. MALADY, The Ghosts in Our Machines *LYDIA MILLET, Endlings TOMMY ORANGE, Indian Heads GEORGE ORWELL, Shooting an Elephant *ALISSA QUART, Can We Put an End to America's Most Dangerous Myth? MIKE ROSE, "I Just Wanna Be Average" BRENT STAPLES, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal AMY TAN, Mother Tongue HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience *MIYA TOKUMITSU, In the Name of Love *SOJOURNER TRUTH, Ain't I A Woman? JERALD WALKER, Breathe VIRGINIA WOOLF, Professions for Women MICHELLE ZAUNER, Crying in H Mart Glossary of Writing Terms.