Negotiating Difference: Cultural Case Studies for Composition

by Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg

A new kind of multicultural composition reader that focuses on contact zones — historical moments when contending groups have negotiated across boundaries of race, class, gender, and ideology — by offering 6 casebooks that explore conflicts in American history. Assignment sequences and research kits are included at the end of each unit.

963 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1995

Reviews

[Cody White · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a primary textbook, this is a tough book to swallow. It is very dense reading, there are clear author biases, and a lot of the prompts are awkward. That said, though, the text works very well as a research tool.