Christopher Newfield, Ronald Strickland

After Political Correctness (eBook, PDF)

The Humanities And Society In The 1990s

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book resituates the political correctness debates in the humanities branch of the academy. It contends that conservatives have tainted entire academic disciplines to cause university humanists to go from irrelevant to dangerous overnight.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429971020
• Artikelnr.: 55262798

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Going Public
PART ONE 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 TWO 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 THREE AFTER PC: REDESIGNING DISCIPLINES AND 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