Policies governing what is taught in America's colleges and universities, who is admitted, and how faculty are hired (for years viewed as standards of excellence) are now being replaced by standards aimed at "multicultural diversity". Traditional standards are criticised as inherently racist, sexist, and oppressive, while the new perspective is said to be "politically correct." Today, important questions are being raised: Should the study of Western culture be replaced by "multiculturalism"? Is affirmative action inherently racist? These are just two of the numerous issues raised. "Are You Politically Correct?" brings together selections that span the political gamut from the far left to the far right, demonstrating the clash of views on the many issues surrounding the political correctness debate.
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This is another reader in the publisher's "Contemporary Issues" series, which has previously dealt with such topics as euthanasia, gun-control, and abortion. Here, the battleground is education, especially humanities education, with its vocabulary of monoculturalism vs. multiculturalism, cultural pluralism vs. particularism, Afrocentrism vs. Eurocentrism, or the culture of DWEMs (Dead White European Males). The extreme opposing ends of the argument in this compilation of 16 articles, most of them previously published, are represented by Thomas Short and Molefi Kete Asante, while other contributors contemplate the First Amendment (Stanley Fish), academic freedom (Chester E. Finn Jr.), or public education (Diane Ravitch). For comprehensive education collections.
- Arla Lindgren, St. John's Univ., New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Arla Lindgren, St. John's Univ., New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"... a very good selection." Academic Library Book Review "... an even sampling from each side's arsenal." -- Booklist
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I am professor of philosophy and church-state studies at Baylor University. During the 2008-2009 I am serving on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame as the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture.
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"Racist." "Racist." "The man is a racist!" "A racist!" Such denunciations, hissed in tones of self-righteousness and contempt, vicious and vengeful, furious, smoking with hatred-such denunciations haunted Stephan Thernstrom for weeks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multicultural university, new racists, new fundamentalists, many minority students, old racism, minority activists, university leaders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, First Amendment, Professor Asante, Third World, Professor Ravitch, Middle States, African American, Chronicle of Higher Education, American Indians, Diane Ravitch, Western Europe, Latin America, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, California State University, Native Americans, Stanley Fish, Stephan Thernstrom, Supreme Court, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom, Asian American, Dinesh D'Souza, European American New!
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"Racist." "Racist." "The man is a racist!" "A racist!" Such denunciations, hissed in tones of self-righteousness and contempt, vicious and vengeful, furious, smoking with hatred-such denunciations haunted Stephan Thernstrom for weeks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multicultural university, new racists, new fundamentalists, many minority students, old racism, minority activists, university leaders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, First Amendment, Professor Asante, Third World, Professor Ravitch, Middle States, African American, Chronicle of Higher Education, American Indians, Diane Ravitch, Western Europe, Latin America, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, California State University, Native Americans, Stanley Fish, Stephan Thernstrom, Supreme Court, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom, Asian American, Dinesh D'Souza, European American New!
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- Paul Robeson by New republic books on page 262, and page 263
- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens on page 199, and page 201
- Black Athena by Martin Bernal on page 176, and page 186
- Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society by Paul Hollander on page 263
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Volume 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence) by Martin Bernal on page 176
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- Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy: The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century by Donald N. Wood on page 200, and Back Matter
- Mind Siege: The Battle for the Truth by Tim LaHaye in Back Matter
- American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges by Professor Philip G. Altbach PhD on page 297
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