| Preface for Instructors | v |
| Introduction for Students: Crossing Cultures, Reading Actively, and Thinking Critically | xix |
| Part 1 | Identifying Ourselves | 1 |
| Observations | 3 |
| A Short Quiz (United States) | 10 |
| The Mulatto Millennium (United States) | 18 |
| Two Kinds (United States/China) (Fiction) | 24 |
| Quinceanera (United States/Mexico) | 36 |
| The Art of the Fiesta (Mexico) | 48 |
| One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification (Australia/Great Britain) | 55 |
| The Westernization of the World (Great Britain/World) | 66 |
| African Literature: What Tradition? (South Africa) | 73 |
| A View from Canada (Canada) | 79 |
| Imaginary Homelands (India/Great Britain) | 86 |
| Part 2 | Families | 93 |
| Observations | 95 |
| Making Babies (United States) | 102 |
| From Death to Divorce (United States) | 115 |
| Stone Soup (United States) | 127 |
| Limerick Homecoming (Ireland) | 136 |
| Birth Ceremonies (Guatemala) | 146 |
| Nigerian Childhood (Nigeria) | 158 |
| Grave Matters at Monticello (United States) | 168 |
| Family Secrets (United States) | 174 |
| Acquiring a Japanese Family (Japan) | 185 |
| A Family Supper (Japan) (Fiction) | 197 |
| Part 3 | Turning Points | 207 |
| Observations | 209 |
| Mary (United States) | 217 |
| The Stolen Party (Argentina) (Fiction) | 224 |
| So Tsi-fai (Hong Kong) | 231 |
| Imperiled Men (United States) | 237 |
| Achates McNeil (United States) (Fiction) | 245 |
| The New Lost Generation (United States/France) | 263 |
| Europe Once Gripped America's Imagination--Now It's the Other Way Around (United States/Europe) | 273 |
| The New Europeans: Multilingual, Cosmopolitan, Borderless (Europe) | 277 |
| Where Do Whites Fit In? (South Africa) | 284 |
| The Three Jobs of the Future (United States) | 292 |
| Part 4 | Opposite Sexes | 305 |
| Observations | 307 |
| The Disposable Rocket (United States) | 314 |
| Your Life as a Girl (United States) (Fiction) | 319 |
| Woman and Nature (United States) | 327 |
| Man and WOMAN (United States) | 332 |
| Woman as Other (France) | 341 |
| The Chase (Italy) (Fiction) | 349 |
| How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently (United States) | 356 |
| Nisa's Marriage (Botswana) | 363 |
| Muslims, the First Feminists (Arabia) | 371 |
| A Dirty Story (Turkey) (Fiction) | 387 |
| Part 5 | Myth and Magic | 409 |
| Observations | 411 |
| Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction (United States) | 419 |
| What Makes Superman So Darned American? (United States) | 428 |
| Digging into Your Heart (United States) | 439 |
| Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace (United States) | 447 |
| From Beloved (United States) (Fiction) | 460 |
| Caste Hate, and Murder, Outlast Indian Reforms (India) | 477 |
| The Gentleman (Greece/Great Britain) | 483 |
| The Writer and His Community (Nigeria) | 489 |
| Clarisa (Chile) (Fiction) | 501 |
| Dreams for Hire (Colombia/Cuba) | 513 |
| Part 6 | People and Power | 521 |
| Observations | 523 |
| Future Shlock (United States) | 531 |
| Yearnings (China) | 542 |
| The Day After Technology (Russia) | 556 |
| Between Word and Picture (Israel/Germany) | 569 |
| Still Grieving over the Loss of the Land (United States) | 579 |
| Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave It (United States) | 586 |
| The Talented Tenth (United States) | 592 |
| Black Man in a White Court (South Africa) | 600 |
| Six Days: Some Rememberings (United States) | 610 |
| Down the Clinical Disco (Great Britain) (Fiction) | 617 |
| Georgaphical Index | 629 |
| Rhetorical Index | 631 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | 637 |
| Map of the World Identifying Countries Treated in Selections | |
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