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Subject(s)

• Academic freedom—United States [Browse]
• Teaching, Freedom of—United States [Browse]
• Universities and colleges—Curricula—United States [Browse]
• Education, Higher—Political aspects—United States [Browse]

Editor

• Johnson, Valerie C. [Browse]
• Ruth, Jennifer [Browse]
• Schrecker, Ellen [Browse]

Summary note

"From leaders on the frontlines of the battle for academic freedom, a first-of-its-kind response to the far right's insidious attacks on the right to learn."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / by Irene Mulvey
• Introduction: A time for faculty to act / Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker
• Academic freedom and political repression from McCarthyism to Trump / Ellen Schrecker
• A Koch-funded racial backlash : understanding the Critical Race Theory moral panic / Isaac Kamola
• The rise of educational gag orders / Jonathan Friedman, Jeremy C. Young, and James Tager
• The epistemology of ignorance and its impact on democracy and higher education / Valerie C. Johnson
• Knowledge and good community organizing can counter the "Divisive Concepts" campaign / Kevin McGruder
• Subverting the intent of the fourteenth amendment / Dennis Parker
• "Don't Say gay" and Can't be trans : behind the anti-LGBTQ+ schooling agenda / Sonnet Gabbard, Anne Mitchell, and Heather Montes Ireland
• The resolutions : mobilizing faculty senates to defend academic freedom / Jennifer Ruth
• Silence gets us nowhere : faculty responses to anti-CRT and divisive cncepts legislation / Sarah Sklaw
• Academic freedom : it's a question of job security / Helena Worthen and Joe Berry
• My battle to preserve academic freedom at the University of Florida / Sharon D. Wright Austin
• Florida faculty unions and the struggle for public education / Katie Rainwater
• Schools of education under fire / Marvin Lynn, Michael E. Dantley, and Lynn M. Gangone.

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Other title(s)

Resisting the right-wing attack on academic freedom

ISBN

• 9780807045152
• 0807045152 (paperback)

LCCN

2023036733

OCLC

1390188858

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