Are You Politically Correct?

by BECKWITH, FRANCIS J.BAUMAN, MICHAEL E.

• ISBN13: 9780879757694
• ISBN10: 0879757698
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Essays from both the left and right examine the wide range of issues surrounding the debates over political correctness and multiculturalism

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 8
Introduction	p. 9
Are You Politically Correct?	p. 14
What Campus Radicals? the P.C. Undergrad is a Useful Specter	p. 33
There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too	p. 42
The Campus: """"An Island of Repression in a Sea of Freedom""""	p. 57
Cultural Diversity, the Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, and the Western Intellectual Tradition	p. 70
The Challenge of Diversity and Multicultural Education	p. 72
""""Diversity"""" and """"Breaking the Disciplines"""": Two New Assaults on the Curriculum	p. 91
Meno's Boy: Hearing His Story-& His Sister's	p. 119
The Value of the Canon	p. 133
Western Civ-and Me: An Address at Harvard University	p. 147
Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures	p. 164
Multiculturalism Without Hierarchy: An Afrocentric Reply to Diane Ravitch	p. 185
Reply to Asante	p. 195
Education and the Racist Road to Barbarism	p. 205
Quotas and Campus Diversity	p. 216
Accrediting Bodies Must Require a Commitment to Diversity	p. 218
Accreditation by Quota: The Case of Baruch College	p. 225
Conclusion	p. 228
Final Thoughts on Political Correctness: Some Proposals	p. 230
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