group identity

Philadelphia college student Shanna Washington, daughter of an African-American alcoholic and a white socialite, searches for something to heal her emotional wounds from childhood and enters into a damaging relationship with an ambitious track star of mixed race.

Bring your learning to life with compelling images, media and text from National Geographic. The fifteen articles gathered in this single-themed reader offer an exceptionally direct entree to issues surrounding identity and culture in the 21st-century United States. Introducing readers to people and customs that may seem foreign, they shed new light on familiar American themes as well..

The cofounder of the Crips discusses gangs, debunking the notion that belonging to a gang is the only way a kid can "fit in.".

Binah, tired of being "the nice one" in her group of friends, decides to get tough after being taken for granted once too often, but her new persona is not fitting in well with the English Roses, nor is it pleasing to Ben, the boy who liked her fine just as she was.

An anthology of poems and stories in which a variety of authors discuss what it means to be American, highlighting the diversity of American styles, families, and cultures.

Explores eleven contemporary issues under debate in French-speaking societies, including affirmative action in the sciences, the trial of Maurice Papon, and regional languages in France.

Introduces the ethnic and group identity movements spawned by the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Covers groups marginalized by mainstream American society by a particular characteristic such as ethnic origin, race, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

A founder of the Crips discusses gangs, debunking the notion that belonging to a gang is the only way a kid can "fit in.".

Argues that because Americans have been sorting themselves into homogeneous communities over the last thirty years, diversity, healthy political and social debate, and creativity has been stifled, leading to a cultural crisis.

Read a diverse collection of personal narratives explaining what it is like to deal with specific social issues. Provides information to broaden and balance readers exposure to current issues.