After political correctness : the humanities and society in the 1990s /
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| Imprint: | Boulder : Westview Press, 1995. |
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| Description: | viii, 424 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and culture 2 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2346212 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Going Public
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 9 '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
- About the Book and Editors
- About the Contributors
- Index