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Debating P.C. : the controversy over political correctness on college campuses

Title

Debating P.C. : the controversy over political correctness on college campuses / edited by Paul Berman.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Dell, ©1992.

Description

x, 338 pages ; 21 cm

URL

<Table of contents> http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780385315333.pdf

Other contributors

Berman, Paul, 1949-

Other titles

Political correctness.

Notes

"A Laurel trade paperback"--Title page verso. I-UNIVLIB: Copy 2: Robert L. Payton Collection.

Contents

• Introduction : the debate and its origins / Paul Berman
• The big chill? : interview with Dinesh D'Souza / Dinesh D'Souza and Robert MacNeil
• On differences : Modern Language Association presidential address 1990 / Catharine R. Stimpson
• The periphery v. the center : the MLA in Chicago / Roger Kimball
• The storm over the university / John Searle
• Public image limited : political correctness and the media's big lie / Michael Berubé
• The value of the canon / Irving Howe
• The politics of knowledge / Edward W. Said
• Whose canon is it, anyway? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• Why do we read? / Katha Pollitt
• "Speech codes" on the campus and problems of free speech / Nat Hentoff
• Freedom of hate speech / Richard Perry and Patricia Williams
• There's no such thing as free speech and it's a good thing, too / Stanley Fish
• The statement of the Black Faculty Caucus / Ted Gordon and Wahneema Lubiano.

• Radical English / George F. Will
• Critics of attempts to democratize the curriculum are waging a campaign to misrepresent the work of responsible professors / Paula Rothenberg
• Multiculturalism : e pluribus plures / Diane Ravitch
• Multiculturalism : an exchange / Molefi Kete Asante
• The prospect before us / Hilton Kramer
• P.C. rider / Enrique Fernández
• Diverse new world / Cornel West
• The challenge for the left / Barbara Ehrenreich.

Summary

Anthology of selections from writings of Irving Howe, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dinesh D'Souza, Catharine R. Stimpson, George F. Will, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [and others].

Subject headings

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States. Education, Humanistic--United States. Academic freedom--United States. Multicultural education--United States. Education, Higher Political aspects United States. Education, Humanistic United States. Academic freedom United States Intercultural education United States.

ISBN

044050466X (pbk.) 9780440504665 (pbk.) 0385315333 9780385315333