The article, "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space," by Brent Staples, is available as a pdf file viewable in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

This reading is taken from the First Edition of Making Sense: A New Rhetorical Reader, edited by Cheryl Glenn. Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002.

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• "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space"