After political correctness : the humanities and society in the 1990s / edited by Christopher Newfield & Ronald Strickland.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Description
viii, 424 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Series
    Politics and culture. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. Contending that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines, causing university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight, the contributors see the PC debates as a struggle over the very purposes of higher education in the United States.
    • Ronald Strickland and Christopher Newfield have assembled the best and the brightest from across the academic disciplines for disclosure on the future of higher education in light of PC.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Introduction: Going Public / Christopher Newfield and Ronald Strickland
    • Pt. 1. The Genealogy of the Anti-PC Agenda. 2. Managing the Anti-PC Industry / Sara Diamond. 3. Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education / Ellen Messer-Davidow. 4. Blowback: Playing the Nationalist Card Backfires / Gerald Horne. 5. The Entrepreneurship of the New: Corporate Direction and Educational Issues in the 1990s / Evan Watkins and Lisa Schubert
    • Pt. 2. Responding to the Anti-PC Attacks. 6. The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake / Joan Wallach Scott. 7. Illiberal Reporting / Alice Jardine. 8. Political Correctness, Principled Contextualism, Pedagogical Conscience / Evan Carton. 9. Not Born on the Fourth of July: Cultural Differences and American Literary Studies / Gregory S. Jay. 10. Take Back the Mike: Producing a Language for Date Rape / Grant Farred. 11. The Institutional Response to Difference / Jean E. Howard.
    • 12. Culture Wars and the Profession of Literature / Vincent P. Pecora. 13. Political Correctness and the Attack on American Colleges / Paul Lauter. 14. English After the USSR / Richard Ohmann. 15. The Politics of Political Correctness / Richard Terdiman
    • Pt. 3. After PC: Redesigning Disciplines and Institutions. 16. Neither Impugning nor Disavowing Whiteness Does a Viable Politics Make: The Limits of Identity Politics / George Yudice. 17. The Campus Culture and the Politics of Change and Accountability: An Interview with Thomas P. Wallace / Ronald Strickland. 18. Public Policy and Multiculturalism in America: Educational Rhetoric and Urban Realities / A. R. Lategola. 19. '68, or Something / Lauren Berlam. 20. Cultural Studies: Countering a Depoliticized Culture / Donald Lazere. 21. Something Queer About the Nation-State / Michael Warner. 22. Multiculturalism in the Nineties: Pitfalls and Possibilities / Rajeswari Mohan. 23. Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change / Ronald Strickland.
    ISBN
    • 0813323363
    • 0813323371 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    94033692
    OCLC
    31242119
    RCP
    C - O
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