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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
What is Remix?
Investigating Cultural Assumptions
Reading and Thinking Like a Cultural Critic: 4 Steps
Composing with Words and Images
*An MLA-style Sample Student Paper
Why the Everyday Matters…A Message from the Author
1. Identity is what we’re born with.
2. Identity is shaped by culture.
*(essay) Queen Latifah, Who You Callin’ Bitch?
*(essay & images) Julian Dibbell, Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators
*(essay & profile) Mrigaa Sethi, Facebook: Editing the Self
(essay) Lucy Grealy, Masks
(essay) Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
1. Communities provide us with a sense of stability
2. Communities serve our needs
3. Communities accept us for who we are.
(essay) Garrison Keillor, A Wobegon Holiday Dinner
*(essay) Alex Espinosa, My Filipino Roots
1) Competition is part of our DNA.
2) Competition makes us better.
3) Competitions define winners and losers.
*(comments) George Martin and the Beatles, On Collaboration
*(essay) Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson, Alpha Male Syndrome
*(essay) Kumi Hodge, Making the Grade
*(sidebar) David Suitts, Soccer Parents
*(essay) Tammy Johnson, A Model Minority Mess: Race & Beauty in America’s
*(brief essay) Stephen R. Covey, The Habits of Highly Effective
*(brief essay) Lois P. Frankel, Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner
1. Love conquers all.
*(essay) Tim Neville, Once Upon a Time in a Tent
(brief essay) Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, The Rules: Don’t
(brief essay) David Singleton, The MANdates: 25 Rules for Successful
*(essay, photo) Rebecca Traister, Hit Her Baby One More Time
*(artifacts) A Collection of Cultural Artifacts: Tabloid Coverage
*(essay) Heather Havrilesky, Stalking Celebrities
(essay) David Sterritt, Face of an Angel
(essay) Samuel L. Jackson, In Character
*(essay) Steven Johnson, Everything Bad is Good for You: Games
*(essay) DeSean Robinson Walker, Hip Hop Life
1. Nature is a spiritual and nurturing force
2. Nature is a person’s essential character
*(essay & charts) Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
*(essay) Jonah Lehrer, The Living City
*(essay) Sparrow, Cockroach Diary
*(artifacts) The (RED) Campaign and Buylesscrap.org: Should You
*(essay) Christine Kenneally, The First Word: Origins of Language
*(sidebar) Jared Diamond, On Grammar and Evolution
*(essay & images) Henry Petroski, The Toothpick
*(essay) Donald A. Norman, The Psychology of People and Machines
*(essay) Henry Jenkins, What is Convergence Culture?
(essay) The Onion, New Technological Breakthrough to Fix
*(sidebar) Albert Einstein, On Science and Ethics
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