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Includes bibliographical references.

The Readings. How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa --
Racial identities / Kwame Anthony Appiah --
The ordinary devoted mother / Alison Bechdel --
The vulnerable observer / Ruth Behar --
Ways of seeing ; On Rembrandt's Woman in Red ; On Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew / John Berger --
Autobiography as spectacle : an act of liberation or the illusion of liberation? / Gloria Bird --
Beauty (re)discovers the male body / Susan Bordo --
Beside oneself : on the limits of sexual autonomy / Judith Butler --
Hungry ; On becoming educated / Joy Castro --
Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates --
Of the meaning of progress ; Of the wings of Atalanta ; Of the training of black men / W.E.B. DuBois --
Panopticism / Michel Foucault --
Slow ideas / Atul Gawande --
Our secret / Susan Griffin --
Contest of words : high school debate and the demise of public speech / Ben Lerner --
The dark night of the soul / Richard E. Miller --
The loss of the creature / Walker Percy --
Nutritionism defined / Michael Pollan --
Arts of the contact zone / Mary Louise Pratt --
The achievement of desire / Richard Rodriguez --
States / Edward Said --
The gene hackers / Michael Specter --
Our time / John Edgar Wideman.