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CommunityText Overview

We will read a series of texts from a variety of genres on the topic of community. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the Unit Text List. Unit Readers are available through Open Up Resources.

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “Ending the Essay: Conclusions,” Pat Bellanca, The Writing Center at Harvard University, 1998
    • “Ethics Defined,” Ethics Unwrapped, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
    • “If They Should Come for Us,” Fatimah Asghar, Poetry, March 2017
    • “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” excerpt from The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, Dial Press, an imprint of Random House, 1962
    • “Pen Pals,” Christy Chan, Snap Judgement, National Public Radio, 2017
    • “The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics,” Ryan M. Milner and Whitney Phillips, Motherboard by Vice, November 20, 2018
    • “The Reason #BlackTwitter Exists (And Is Totally Awesome),” Say It Loud, PBS, YouTube, May 30, 2019
    • “Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion,” Purdue Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
    • “‘Where I’m From’: A Crowdsourced Poem That Collects Your Memories of Home,” Casey Noenickx, Kwame Alexander, and Rachel Martin, National Public Radio, August 28, 2019
  • Unit Reader
    • Chapter 4, excerpt from Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, HarperCollins Publishers, 2016
    • Excerpt from “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” Robert D. Putnam, National Endowment for Democracy and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
    • “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” excerpt from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Aunt Lute Books. Reproduced with permission from the estate of Gloria Anzaldúa., 1987
    • “It Wasn’t Just the Trolls: Early Internet Culture, ‘Fun,’ and the Fires of Exclusionary Laughter,” Whitney Phillips, SAGE Publishing, 2019
    • “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan, Threepenny Review, Reprinted by permission from Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency., 1990
    • “Stoop Sitting,” excerpt from The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo, HarperCollins Publishers, 2018
    • “The End of Solitude,” William Deresiewicz, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Used with permission from the author., 2009

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “The Site of Memory,” Toni Morrison, Houghton Mifflin, 1995

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