Supplementary Texts for Final Essay Assignment

AO Scott Quote

“Mosque Madness at Ground Zero” (The New York Post)

“Zero Grounds” (The New Yorker)

“American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong” (New York Times)

Images from Image Unit (Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Met Museum paintings)

— Images for Homework

–Images for Class

“Cosmopolis 1919-1931” in New York: An Illustrated History and accompanying video

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “My Lost City”

MTV Cribs – Lil Jon

Dr. Zizmor

Dick and Jane Primers

Kiri Davis, “A Girl Like Me”

Rafael Casal, “Barbie and Ken 101”

Shirley Temple and Bojangles in The Little Colonel

Shirley Temple and Jane Withers in Bright Eyes

Toni Morrison, “Afterword” from The Bluest Eye

Oprah Interview with Toni Morrison

David Kamp, “Rethinking the American Dream” (Vanity Fair)