Discusses leaving the old canon and creating a new curriculum encompassing more diverse interests. Argues that multicultural literature should be read because it will cause readers to come face-to-face with their own values in a way which will either cause those values to change or cause readers to become more aware of them and more reflective of…

Demonstrates how five daytime television shows present American values regarding love and sex, money and materialism, and shame and guilt. (DD)

Proposes a shift in the focus of literary studies to emphasize practical criticism and critical reading of literature within the context of social values. (RL)

Identifies a number of the major aspects of social class that freshman composition addresses in its aims of enabling students to think and write in ways that will make them good citizens of the academic (and larger middle class) community and viable candidates for good middle class jobs upon graduation. (TB)