Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. What's in a Name? The Role of Language and Identity -- Keith Dorwick, "Getting Called Fag." Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives -- Lillian Comas-Diaz, "Hispanics, Latinos, or Americanos: The Evolution of Identity." Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology -- Daoud Kuttab , "We Are Palestinians." NY Times -- N. Scott Momaday, "The Names: A Memoir." -- Jill Filipovic,"Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs." The Guardian -- Amy Tan,"Mother Tongue."The Threepenny Review -- Dennis Baron, "Who Owns Global English." Baron's blog "The Web of Language." -- 2. Where Are You From? Notions of Identity and Place -- Baratunde Thurston,"How to Be Black" NPR -- Allen Ginsberg, "America." Poem from Howl -- Pat Buchanan, "Deconstructing America." -- Herbert E. Meyer, "Why Americans Hate this "Immigration" Debate." American Thinker -- Dinaw Mengestu,"Home at Last." Edited collection from Brooklyn Was Mine -- Guy Merchant, "Unravelling the Social Network: Theory and Research." -- Jhumpa Lahari,"Rhode Island."State by State -- 3. Where Did You Go to School? Education in America -- Taylor Garcia,"Could Have Done Better."Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives -- Mike Rose, "I Just Want to Be Average." -- Patrick T. Terenzini and Ernest T. Pascarella,"Living With Myths: Undergraduate Education in America."Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning -- "Education Pays: Education Pays in Higher Earnings and Lower Unemployment." -- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey (Chart) Brown v. Board of Education -- Malcolm X, "Learning to Read." -- Victor Villanueva, "Spic in English!"Bootstraps -- Richard Rodriguez, "Achievement of Desire." -- Cathy Davidson,"Project Classroom Makeover."Now You See It -- 4. What Do You Do? Work in America -- "Work, In Six Words."NPR -- Jeffery Zaslow, "The Most Praised Generation Goes to Work."Wall Street Journal -- Lee Rainie,"Digital Natives Invade the Workplace."Pew Internet & American Life Project -- Anthony De Palma,"Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung."NY Times -- Stephen Cruz.Studs Terkel -- Stephen Marche,"We Are Not All Created Equal: The Truth About the American Class System."Esquire -- Jacquelyn Smith, "The Happiest And Unhappiest Jobs In America."Forbes -- Devon W. Carbado and Miti Gulati,"Working Identity."Acting White: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America -- 5. Whom Do You Love? Romance and Relationships in America -- Robert Feldman,"Finding The 'Liar' In All Of Us."NPR -- Teresa DiFalco,"Internet Cheating: In the Clicks of a Mouse, a Betrayal." NY Times -- Deborah Tannen,"Sex, Lies, and Conversation."Washington Post -- Plato,"Phaedrus" (Selected excerpts) -- Wallace Shawn,"Is Sex Interesting?"Harper's Magazine -- Michelle Chen, "Farewell, June Cleaver: "Non-Traditional Families" and Economic Opportunity."In These Times -- Elizabeth Bernstein,"Sibling Rivalry Grows Up."Wall Street Journal -- Kirun Kapur,"Anthem."AGNI Online -- 6. Where Do You Draw the Line? Privacy, Socializing, and Life Without Boundaries -- "Don't Trip Over Your Digital Footprint." NPR -- Sherry Turkle,"How Computers Change the Way We Think."Chronicle of Higher Education -- Peggy Orenstein, "The Way We Live Now: I Tweet Therefore I am."NY Times -- Rachel Dewoskin,"East Meets Tweet."Vanity Fair -- Hanni Fakhoury, Kurt Opsahl, and Rainy Reitman,"When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga."Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Dan Fletcher, "How Facebook is Redefining Privacy"Time -- Alan Norton, "10 Reasons Why I Avoid Social Networking Services." TechRepublic.

"Read. Write. Oxford. Identity: A Reader for Writers focuses on the essential topic of identity as it relates to culture, rhetoric, and the multiple modes of expression that are increasingly common in today's multilingual society. Each chapter in this reader asks students foundational questions about identity. These questions include: Where are you from? Where did you go to school? What do you do for work? And whom do you love? While these questions appear easy to answer, students will learn as they work through the readings that their answers are linked to meaningful themes including language, nationality, labor, education, personal relationships, and privacy. Developed for the freshman composition course, Identity: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in discussions about critical literacy, cultural studies, and the writing process. Identity: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives"--

"A reader focused on the topic of identity as it relates to culture, rhetoric, and the multiple modes of expression that are increasingly common in today's multilingual and multimodal society. Developed for the first-year writing market, the reader will prompt questions pertinent to writing studies, critical literacy, and cultural studies, and it will contain an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific readings. The readings provide global perspectives, diverse voices, unexpected sources, and varying levels of difficulty"--