After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s.

Abstract

Introduction: going public, Christopher Newfield and Ronald Strickland. Part 1 The genealogy of the anti-PC agenda: managing the anti-PC industry, Sara Diamond manufacturing the attack on liberalized higher education, Ellen Messer-Davidow blow-back - playing the nationalist card backfires, Gerald Horne the entrepreneurship of the new - corporate direction and educational issues in the 1990s, Evan Watkins and Lisa Schubert. Part 2 Responding to the anti-PC attacks - univesity culture: the campaign against political correctness - what's really at stake, Joan Wallach Scott illiberal reporting, Alice Jardine political correctness, principled contextualism, pedagogical conscience, Evan Carton not born on the 4th of July - cultural differences and American literary studies, Gregory S. Jay take back the mike - producing a language for date rape, Grant Farred the institutional response to difference, Jean E. Howard culture wars and the profession of literature, Vincent P. Pecora. Part 4 Responding to the anti-PC attacks - the university and social economy: political correctness and the attack on American colleges, Paul Lauter English after the USSR, Richard Ohmann the politics of political correctness, Richard Terdiman. Part 5 After PC - redesigning disciplines and institutions: neither impugning nor disavowing whiteness does a viable politics make - the limits of identity politics, George Yudice the campus culture and the politics of change and accountability, Thomas P. Wallace public policy and multiculturalism in America, A.R. Lategola '68 or something, Lauren Berland cultural studies - countering a de-politicized culture, Donald Lazere something queer about the nation-state, Michael Warner multiculturalism in the Nineties - pitfalls and possibilities, Rajeswari Mohan curriculum mortis - a manifesto for structural change, Ronald Strickland.