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Are you politically correct? : debating America's cultural standards
Title:
Are you politically correct? : debating America's cultural standards
Author:
Bauman, Michael E.
Publication Information:
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993.
Physical Description:
266 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Are you politically correct? / John Taylor -- What campus radicals? : the P.C. undergrad is a useful specter / Rosa Ehrenreich -- There's no such thing as free speech and it's a good thing, too / Stanley Fish -- The campus : "an island of repression in a sea of freedom" / Chester E. Finn, Jr. -- The challenge of diversity and multicultural education / The President's Task Force on Multicultural Education and Campus Diversity -- "Diversity" and "breaking the disciplines" : two new assaults on the curriculum / Thomas Short -- Meno's boy : hearing his story, & his sister's / Catharine R. Stimpson -- The value of the canon / Irving Howe -- Western Civ - and me : an address at Harvard University / Allan Bloom -- Multiculturalism : E pluribus plures / Diane Ravitch -- Multiculturalism without hierarchy : an afrocentric reply to Diane Ravitch / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reply to Asante / Diane Ravitch -- Education and the racist road to barbarism / George Reisman -- Accrediting bodies must require a commitment to diversity / Stephen S. Weiner --

Accreditation by quota : the case of Baruch College / William R. Beer -- Final thoughts on political correctness : some proposals / Dinesh D'Souza.
Reading Level:
1640 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780879757694
Format :
Book