After Political Correctness

by Newfield, Christopher; Strickland, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780813323367
• ISBN10: 0813323363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Going Public	p. 1
Managing the Anti-Pc Industry	p. 23
Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education	p. 38
Blowback: Playing the Nationalist Card Backfires	p. 79
The Entrepreneurship of the New: Corporate Direction and Educational Issues in the 1990s	p. 90
The Campaign against Political Correctness: What's Really at Stake	p. 111
Illiberal Reporting	p. 128
Political Correctness, Principled Contextualism, Pedagogical Conscience	p. 138
Not Born on the Fourth of July: Cultural Differences and American Literary Studies	p. 152
Take Back the Mike: Producing a Language for Date Rape	p. 174
The Institutional Response to Difference	p. 193
Culture Wars and the Profession of Literature	p. 199
Political Correctness and the Attack on American Colleges	p. 212
English after the USSR	p. 226
The Politics of Political Correctness	p. 238
Neither Impugning nor Disavowing Whiteness Does a Viable Politics Make: the Limits of Identity Politics	p. 255
The Campus Culture and the Politics of Change and Accountability: an Interview with Thomas P. Wallace	p. 286
Public Policy and Multiculturalism in America: Educational Rhetoric and Urban Realities	p. 297
9 '68, or Something	p. 313
Cultural Studies: Countering a Depoliticized Culture	p. 340
Something Queer about the Nation-State	p. 361
Multiculturalism in the Nineties: Pitfalls and Possibilities	p. 372
Curriculum Mortis: a Manifesto for Structural Change	p. 389
About the Book and Editors	p. 405
About the Contributors	p. 407
Index	p. 409
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