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People and Promise of California, The (A Longman Topics Reader)
ISBN: 9780321434890 | 0321434897
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 8/30/2007
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"The People and Promise of California "uses an exciting collection of readings focusing on the unique, diverse, and cutting edge culture of California to help students understand the strategies and skills of good writing. To help the reader understand the strategies and skills of good writing, using readings focusing on the culture of California. California cultural history General Interest; Regional Interest
| The Lure and the Letdown of California | |
| A Nation-State | |
| The Way West | |
| What the Railroads Will Bring Us | |
| You See Gridlock, I See Heaven | |
| Graduation Marks Triumph for Homeless Woman | |
| My Place in California | |
| Statement to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (April 1951) | |
| Blacklist: A Different Look at the 1947 HUAC Hearing | ... MORE |
| The Third California | |
| Arrivals, Departures, and Culture Clashes | |
| Population Whirligig | |
| Excerpt from Los Angeles, Capital of the Third World | |
| The Third Border | |
| Being Japanese is Pretty Cool After All | |
| Kids and Gangs: Seeking Solutions | |
| The Anti-Heros: The LA 4 | |
| Le thi diem thuy | |
| Excerpt from The Gangster We Are All Looking For | |
| My Oakland: There Is A There There | |
| Getting Our Fair Share | |
| Tim Hodson,History, Myth, and Political Instability in California | |
| California Here We Come | |
| Battles for Fairness: California's Unions Fight Discrimination | |
| Super-Sized Legislators: Should California Downsize its Districts? | |
| Unprotected Californians: Health Care as the New Civil Rights Issue | |
| Lesson One: Training Counts | |
| College in California: Options Reduced? | |
| Safety, Security, and Sustainability | |
| The Promise of the Prison | |
| A Hundred Rivers Run Through It | |
| Sour Grapes: California Farm Workers' Endless Struggle 40 Years Later | |
| Toxins on the Farms: Agricultural Abuses? | |
| The Day California Cracks | |
| Mind Your Language | |
| The 2% Strategy: A Bold New Approach to Shape the Future of Southern California | |
| The Paradox of the Hedge-Do Good Fences Really Make Good Neighbors? | |
| A Shadow Falls Over the Square | |
| From the Center to the Edges | |
| Other Californians | |
| Surfacing | |
| "Slab City," from `Go West, Old Man." | |
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