After Political Correctness: The Humanities And Society In The 1990s

by Christopher Newfield, Ronald Strickland

Overview

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 brightest from across the academic disciplines for disclosure on the future of higher education in light of PC.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813323374
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	05/02/1995
Series:	Politics and Culture Series , #2
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1580L (what's this?)

About the Author

Ronald Strickland is associate professor of English at Illinois State University. He writes on pedagogy and curricular reform, topics in cultural criticism, and the literature and culture of early modern England. Christopher Newfield is assistant professor of English at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Going Public Part I: The Genealogy of the Anti-PC Agenda 2. Managing the Anti-PC Industry 3. Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education 4. Blowback: Playing the Nationalist Card Backfires 5. The Entrepreneurship of the New: Corporate Direction and Educational Issues in the 1990s Part II: Responding to the Anti-Pc Attacks 6. The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What’s Really at Stake 7. Illiberal Reporting 8. Political Correctness, Principled Contextualism, Pedagogical Conscience 9. Not Born on the Fourth of July: Cultural Differences and American Literary Studies 10. Take Back the Mike: Producing a Language for Date Rape 11. The Institutional Response to Difference 12. Culture Wars and the Profession of Literature 13. Political Correctness and the Attack on American Colleges 14. English After the USSR 15. The Politics of Political Correctness Part III: After PC: Redesigning Disciplines & Institutions 16. Neither Impugning nor Disavowing Whiteness Does a Viable Politics Make: The Limits of Identity Politics 17. The Campus Culture and the Politics of Change and Accountability: An Interview with Thomas P. Wallace 18. Public Policy and Multiculturalism in America: Educational Rhetoric and Urban Realities 19. 68, or Something 20. Cultural Studies: Countering a Depoliticized Culture 21. Something Queer About the Nation-State 22. Multiculturalism in the Nineties: Pitfalls and Possibilities 23. Curriculum Mortis: A Manifesto for Structural Change