Overview

Many outsiders might view New York City as inscrutable - a place too vast and complex to understand - never mind to live in. But residents of New York know the city as a place that has both limits and great possibilities.   The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City encourages the reader to explore the city in all of its complexity. Students taking their first or second composition class might approach writing and critical thinking as overwhelming, much like New York City to the newcomer. The Place Where We Dwell contextualizes critical reading, writing, and thinking, while exploring the city some call home.  The NEW third edition of The Place Where We Dwell inspires an animated discussion and to sustain conversations through several defined themes such as city life, immigration, urban education, art and design, current issues, and the waterfront.  The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City:  Includes numerous essays that provide and demonstrate details and critical reflection that students could incorporate into their own writing. Examines the rhetorical strategy of comparison and contrast. Provides exemplary models of exposition, analysis, and argumentation and offer a broad context for student response. Offers a sampling of imaginative writing that both expands upon many of the themes found throughout the reader and offers readers imaginative visions of the urban experience. Includes student-friendly pedagogical elements such as chapter introductions, author biographies preceding each selection, pre-reading questions. Discussion questions, writing tasks, a companion website, and more! 

Full Product Details

Author:   Juanita But ,  Mark Noonan ,  Sean M Scanlan
Publisher:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Edition:   3rd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9781465228314

ISBN 10:   1465228314
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   02 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Table of Contents

SECTION I: Here is New York Chapter 1. New Yorkers and their Neighborhoods Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York Katie Roiphe, Coney Island of the Mind E. B. White, Here is New Yorks Langston Hughes, Subway Rush Hour Ralph Ellison, New York 1936 Anna Quindlen, Pregnant in New York Ian Frazier, Take the F Willie Perdomo, Where I'm From Frances Chung, Yo Vivo En El Barrio Chino Nelson George, Fort Greene Dreams Chapter 2. Immigrants and the American Dream Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus Langston Hughes, Good Morning Anzia Yezierska, America and I Junot Diaz, The Money Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York Frances Chung, Riding the Subway Is an Adventure Edwidge Danticat, New York Was Our City on the Hill Suki Kim, Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habits Chapter 3. Urban Education DeWitt Clinton, Free Schools Colin Powell, My American Journey Bilal Rahmani, Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican Alfred Lubrano, Bricklayer's Boy Howard Gardner, Five Minds for the Future Claudia Wallace and Sonja Steptoe, How to Bring Our Schools into the 21st Century Chapter 4. Urban Art and Design Jose Parla, Research and Memory Joseph Anastasio, My Life in Graffiti Berenice Abbott, Photographing the City Lewis Wickes Hine, New York at Work Dinanda H. Nooney, Domestic Photographs of Brooklyn Rem Koolhaas, Prediction Donald Reynolds, The Making of an Icon Mark Naison, From Doo Wop to Hip Hop: The Bittersweet Odyssey of African-Americans in the South Bronx Chapter 5. Current Issues 177 James Parrott, As Incomes Gap Widens, New York Grows Apart Brian Paul, Affordable Housing Policies May Spur Gentrification, Segregation Margaret Morton, The Homeless Mark Berkey-Gerard, Youth Gangs Aarti Shahani, Legalization and De-Legalization Courtney Gross, Despite Setbacks, Bloomberg Plan Has Made New York Greener Benjamin Shepard, Fighting Police Brutality in Global Brooklyn Chapter 6. Exploring the Waterfront Giovanni Verazzano Discovers the Bay Russell Shorto, Henry Hudson: The Pollinator Walt Whitman, Mannahatta Ernest Poole, The Harbor Phillip Lopate, The Brooklyn Bridge Jennifer Egan, Reading Lucy Gloria Deak, The People, Parks, and Ambience of Brooklyn SECTION II: Literary New York Fiction Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street Stephen Crane, A Dark-Brown Dog Edith Wharton, Mrs. Manstey's View O. Henry, The Making of a New Yorker John Dos Passos, I. Ferryslip Ralph Ellison, Prologue to Invisible Man Monique Ferrell, Tu Sabes: A Story In Three Parts Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Ha Jin, A Good Fall Poetry Hart Crane, The Bridge Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Edna ST. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo Amy Lowell, The Taxi Langston Hughes, Lenox Avenue: Midnight Hilda Morley, New York Subway Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You Harvey Shapiro, Meditation on a Brooklyn Bench Abraham Benjamin (2011), Lost Son's Self-Assessment Taiyo Na, Immigrant Mother (Lovely to Me) Gang Starr, The Place Where We Dwell Meena Alexander, Central Park, Carousel George Guida, Life in the New World Toni Morrison, The Dead of September 11

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