Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses

ISBN: 0385315333

Author: Berman, Paul

Condition: New

The debate over "P.C." at America's universities is the most important discussion in American education today and has grown into a major national controversy raging on the covers of our top magazines and news shows. This provocative anthology gives voice to the top thinkers of our time, liberal and conservative, as they tackle the question. From the multicultural perspective of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who argues passionately for more diversity, to the erudition of Irving Howe, who stresses the profound value of the literary canon, this exciting collection is required reading for thinking Americans . . . and for everyone concerned with the future of higher education and the shaping of young minds.Contents include:The Big Chill? Interview with Dinesh DSouza by Robert MacNeilOn Differences: Modern Language Association Presidential Address 1990 by Catharine R. StimpsonThe Periphery v. the Center: The MLA in Chicago by Roger KimballThe Storm over the University by John SearlePublic Imaged Limited: Political Correctness and the Medias Big Lie by Michael BerubéThe Value of the Canon by Irving HoweThe Politics of Knowledge by Edward W. SaidWhose Canon Is It, Anyway? by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Why Do We Read? by Katha PollittSpeech Codes on the Campus and Problems of Free Speech by Nat HentoffFreedom of Hate Speech by Richard Perry and Patricia WilliamsTheres No Such Thing as Free Speech and Its a Good Thing, Too by Stanley FishThe Statement of the Black Faculty Caucus by Ted Gordon and Wahneema LubianoRadical English by George F. WillCritics of Attempts to Democratize the Curriculum Are Waging a Campaign to Misrepresent the Work of Responsible Professors by Paula RothenbergMulticulturalism: E Pluribus Plures by Diane RavitchMulticulturalism: An Exchange by Molefi Kete AsanteThe Prospect Before Us by Hilton KramerP.C. Rider by Enrique FernándezDiverse New World by Cornel WestThe Challenge for the Left by Barbara Ehrenreich