Risking Contact: Readings to Challenge Our Thinking

by W. Royce Adams

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In [this college reader, the author] presents a collection of essays that take a range of positions on controversial issues of the day, such as prejudice, human rights, religion, and the media. The readings represent a wide range of ethnic, cross-cultural, and gender voices that will challenge readers to make contact with the issues and develop their own positions. Among the voices students will encounter in [this book] are those of Shelby Steele, the Christian Coalition, Thomas Keneally, show more Louis Farrakhan, Dinesh D'Souza, Merlin Stone, Deborah Fallows, Robert McNamara, Patricia J. Williams, and Andrea Dworkin. After a brief introduction to critical reading, thinking, and writing, [the book] presents a range of reading selections in each thematic chapter. Each selection is complemented by apparatus that offers [the author's] own combination of a voice that engages students plus eminently practical advice and clear pedagogy. Appendices on essay format, quoting and documenting sources, and using research sources complete the book. -Back cover. show less