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Part IX: Globalism, Nationalism, and Cultural Identity

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• “Loneliness Can Be the Death of Us” by Judy Foreman
  This article from The Boston Globe supplements Carson McCullers’s essay “Loneliness . . . An American Malady. ” It supplies sociological information about this phenomenon and its effects upon our psyches and our health.
  
  
• ZNet: Emergency Terrorism and War
  This site provides original essays and links to a variety of materials surrounding “the Sept. 11, 2001 calamity and preparations for war. ” It provides a wide variety of opinions on the 9/11 and its aftermath, a topic broached by Adam Gopnik’s “The City and the Pillars. ”
  
  
• The American National Red Cross: Emotional Health in the Wake of 9/11
  This site discusses ways to cope with the reality and aftermath of 9/11, and so usefully supplements Adam Gopnik’s essay on the ways in which the terrorist attack changed American culture.
  
  
• Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
  This site and its links provide access to an audio and visual history of the 9/11 tragedy. These resources that can be useful supplements to Adam Gopnik’s essay, “The City and the Pillars. ”
  
  
• PBS: Online NewsHour: Richard Rodriguez Essays
  Additional essays by Richard Rodriguez, whose “Hispanic” is included in this section of The Conscious Reader, can be accessed from this site. Since Rodriguez’s essay is a type of retrospective on his own work, reading some of his other essays can provide useful background for that piece.
  
  
• The Independent Institute: “The New Betrayal of Black Freedom in America” by Shelby Steele
  Like his “On Being Black and Middle Class, ” included in this section of The Conscious Reader, this piece by Shelby Steele makes a case for the rethinking and possible eradication of affirmative action programs.
  
  
• U.S. Department of State: Report on the Taliban’s War Against Women
  This site provides U.S. government information on atrocities committed against Afghani women, a chilling supplement to Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul, a dramatic interpretation of such atrocities, which is included in this section of The Conscious Reader.
  
  
• The Thomas Merton Center
  This site provides rich context for the study of Thomas Merton, the Catholic philosopher whose essay “Love Can Only Be Kept by Being Given Away” is included in this section of The Conscious Reader.
  
  
• Islam Online
  This site provides extensive background information about Islam, providing useful background for your reading of Anthony Shadid’s “Legacy of the Prophet, ” included in this section of The Conscious Reader.
  
  
• The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
  This site details the mission and activities of the foundation created by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The information provided can help you to better understand Wiesel’s life and work and, thereby, his essay “The America I Love” about the role of the U.S. in protecting freedoms.
  
  
• Acadamy of Achievement: Interview: Elie Wiesel
  This interview with the author of “The America I Love” can help you to better understand the perspectives he brings to the United States’s policies on fighting terrorism.
  
  
• Ping Chong & Company
  This site gives biographical information about Ping Chong, the author of the play “L’Histoire Chinoise, ” as well as an overview of his drama company and its work.
  
  

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