Critical issues in contemporary culture Book

	Preface
	High Culture/Low Culture	4
	Literacy and Cultural Literacy	8
	General Education and the Search for a Common Culture	24
	Minority Status and Literacy in Comparative Perspective	29
	Literacy and Individual Consciousness	38
	Affirming Cultural Citizenship in the Puerto Rican Community	50
	Creating One's Self: The Eaton Sisters	64
	Beyond the BS and Drumbeating: Staggering Through Life as a Man	79
	Loving Your Enemy	[s.n.]
	What You See ...	94
	Rape and the Boxing Ring	90
	Revenge of the Green Dragons	103
	But Does the New Woman Really Want the New Man?	109
	Why Men Are the Way They Are	116
	Marriage and Feminism	120
	A Short History of Love	129
	No More MoonJune: Love's Out	137
	What Is Love?	141
	The Right Chemistry	145
	The Frustration in Family Life	151
	The Business of Selling Mail-Order Brides	158
	Black Male/Female Relations	167
	Doll of Easy Inches Is More Realistic Model	182
	Barbie Doll	184
	The Holly Pageant	186
	Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	193
	Bootstrap Feminism	201
	Fetishes	208
	The Other Body: Reflections on Difference, Disability and Identity Politics	217
	Sitting Pretty	224
	Scales	233
	The Day It Happened	245
	The Men We Carry in Our Minds...and How They Differ from the Real Lives of Most Men	250
	Telling Them Apart	255
	Prologue to "Color, Culture, and Behavior"	262
	Is Laughter Contagious?	271
	The Invisible Immigrants: Haitians in America Are Industrious, Upwardly Mobile and Vastly Misunderstood	282
	New York Jews	293
	Long Island Shelter, Boston, Massachusetts	299
	Curse of the Merit Class: America's New Ruling Caste Is Bad News for the Country	310
	Young, Gifted and Jobless: For a Rising Number of Professionals, the Dream of Financial Security Is Gone	317
	The Blue-Collar Blues: Hundreds of Thousands of Former Factory Workers Suddenly Constitute a Downwardly Mobile Class	324
	On Dumpster Diving	330
	Homeplace: A Site of Resistance	340
	Dust and Dishes: Organizing Asian American Workers	349
	Asian American Women in Broadcasting	358
	Social Class, Race, and School Achievement	373
	Success Against the Odds: Young Black Men Tell What It Takes	389
	The World of the Native American Child: Education	404
	Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman	412
	The Ghetto Preppies: Giving Kids "A Better Chance" Is Not So Easy	419
	Conclusions about Inequality in the Schools	425
	Pioneers: A View of Home	434
	Bias Incident at Staten Island's Miller Field: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods	439
	Asymmetries: Men and Women Talking at Cross Purposes	445
	Shades of Black	464
	The Colorings of Childhood: On the Burdens, and Privileges, Facing My Multi-Racial Son	470
	My Man Bovanne	479
	The Shipwreck of "La Caminante"	486
	"Gay Pride" Claims a Place in U.S. Politics	496
	Do They Hear Our Voices?	499
	Two Deserts	504
	Alien Soil	513
	Louis Farrakhan Interview: They Suck the Life from You	520
	Why Did Blacks Turn on Jews?	524
	How Do We Fight Xenophobia?	526
	The Real Crisis Is Selfishness	528
	Some Good May Yet Come of This	530
	I Stand Here Ironing	532
	Readings	541
	Author Index	547