| Description |
x, 338 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
"A Laurel trade paperback"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Debate and its origins / Paul Berman -- Big chill? : interview with Dinesh D'Souza / Dinesh D'Souza and Robert MacNeil -- On differences : Modern Language Association presidential address 1990 / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Periphery v. the center : the MLA in Chicago / Roger Kimball -- Storm over the university / John Searle -- Public image limited : political correctness and the media's big lie / Michael Berube -- Value of the canon / Irving Howe -- Politics of knowledge / Edward W. Said -- Whose canon is it, anway? / 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 -- Statement of the Black Faculty Caucus / Ted Gordon and Wahneema Lubiano. |
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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 -- Prospect before us / Hilton Kramer -- P.C. rider / Enrique Fernandez -- Diverse new world / Cornel West -- Challenge for the left / Barbara Ehrenreich. |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Political aspects.
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Education, Humanistic.
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Academic freedom.
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Multicultural education.
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| Added Author |
Berman, Paul, 1949-
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| Added Title |
Debating political correctness : the controversy over political correctness on college campuses |
| ISBN |
044050466X (pbk.) : $8.00 ($11.00) |
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