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Ted Closson, A GoFundMe Campaign Is Not Health Insurance (graphic essay) 639
Mitch Landrieu, Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in
New Orleans 653 Contents DIFFERENTIATION
Hua Hsu, When Immigrants Are No Longer Considered Americans 662
Jacinda Ardern, Christchurch Memorial Speech 667 Connections to Texts
Priya Basil, Make Yourselves at Home: The Meaning of Hospitality in a The following commonly taught full-length
Divided World 670 works pair well thematically with this
Isabel Wilkerson, from America’s Enduring Caste System 678 chapter. Those marked with an asterisk
George Will, Our Notions of Patriotism Are Mistaken 688 can be found in the Digital Collection of
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Full-Length Works, available in the book’s
VISUAL TEXT Kerry James Marshall, Our Town (painting) 692 digital platform.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a
CONVERSATION Reparations for Slavery 695 Yellow Sun
1. Khalil Bendib, Apology, Hold the Reparations (cartoon) 696
Helen Benedict, Sand Queen
2. Americans’ Views on Reparations (graphs) 697
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the
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3. Robert L. Woodson Sr., Embracing Reparations Debases Blacks, Raises Mohicans*
Troubling Questions 698
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
4. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Congressional Testimony on Reparations 700
5. Charles Lane, Would Reparations for Slavery Be Constitutional? 702 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities*
6. Michelle Singletary, Yes, Black Americans Are Entitled to Reparations. Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
We’ve Earned Them. 705 Joseph Heller, Catch-22
7. A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr., from Ten Things We Get
Wrong about Reparations 707 Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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AP MULTIPLE-CHOICE Reading Questions / Rebecca Solnit, from A Paradise Built in Hell 713
PRACTICE Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Reading Questions / Martin Luther King Jr., from Letter from Birmingham Jail 715
Homer, The Iliad
Composition Questions / Going Beyond Comfort 718
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
SUGGESTIONS Community 721 Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
FOR WRITING
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
8 Justice 723 Chang-Rae Lee, A Gesture Life
Karan Mahajan, The Association of
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CHAPTER INTRODUCTION AP Unit 8 723 Small Bombs
Ian McEwan, Atonement
CENTRAL ESSAY Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me 727
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
CLASSIC ESSAY Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 745 Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato
William Shakespeare, Othello*
OTHER VOICES Frederick Douglass, from What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? 763
Sophocles, Antigone*
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases 768
Virgil, The Aeneid
Emmeline Pankhurst, from Freedom or Death 775
Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate 784
Mary Fisher, A Whisper of AIDS 791
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