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About this book
Humans relate to one another in many ways, but no connections are as deep as those built around shared experiences. Empathy invites us to feel others’ feelings, to see the world how they see it. The world seems to need empathy now more than ever.
This collection of essays, historical documents, stories, and poetry explores the American tendency to decide who is “us” and who is “them” in terms of race, sexuality, immigration status, ability, and other categories of difference. The collection offers readings of varying levels of difficulty and from a wide range of perspectives. This book features not just examples of empathy in practice—which shows readers what it looks like and invites participation in empathy—but also examples where empathy was needed in history and none was found.
Selections include works by Marcus Aurelius, Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lawson Fusao Inada, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Emma Lazarus, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Sonia Sotomayor, Sojourner Truth, and many more.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- A Letter to My Old Master
- On Empathy
- Sporting Faith
- Five and Dime
- Cherokee Memorial
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Empathy for the Devil
- The Story of an Hour
- Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492–1493
- The Other Edition
- The Other Side of Loss
- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- The Crime of Removal
- An Open Letter to Medical Students: Down Syndrome, Paradox, and Medicine
- Running Mountains
- I Spent the Last 15 Years Trying to Become an American
- The Separate Street-Car Law in New Orleans
- Buck v. Bell
- Legends from Camp
- Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
- Second Address to Congress
- Seven Years Concealed
- Jim Crow Laws
- The Five-Sensed World
- On the Removal of Confederate Monuments
- The New Colossus
- My Husband Is a Cop
- Squatter
- Howard University Commencement Address
- I Just Got Called Racist, What Do I Do Now?
- Bread and Roses
- Roots & Wings: A Memoir of Hope and Transformation
- The Terrible Things I Learned About My Dad: On Abuse and the People We Love
- Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
- Impressions of the East Side
- A Latina Judge’s Voice
- Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community
- Ain’t I a Woman?
- Worried Man Blues
- The School Days of an Indian Girl
- Acknowledgments