Table of Contents
Preface — Introduction: A Report From the Front /Cary Nelson and Michael Berube — I PROFESSORS AND POLITICS — Going Public: Political Discourse and the Faculty Voice /Linda Ray Pratt — A Faculty Response to the Fiscal Crisis: From Defense to Offense /Ernst Benjamin — “Political Correctness” and the Attack on American Colleges /Paul Lauter — Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge /Michael W. Apple — Another Brick in the Wall: (Re)contextualizing the Crisis /Carol A. Stabile — The University and the Media: Apologia Pro Vita Sua with a Defense of Rationality /Barry R. Gross — How the Culture Wars Matter: Liberal Historiography, German History, and the Jewish Catastrophe /Jeffrey — Money, Merit, and Democracy at the University: An Exchange — II PEDAGOGY AND POPULATIONS — A Critique of Critical Pedagogy /Gregory Jay and Gerald Graff — Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only /Linda Brodkey — Beyond the Ivory Tower: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Higher Education /Henry A. Giroux — “To Sir With Love”: National Pedagogy in the Clinton Era /Judith Frank — They’re Taking Over! and Other Myths about Race on Campus /Troy Duster — No Special Rights /Michael Warner — The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education /Joan W. Scott — Identity Politics and Campus Communities: An Exchange — The Rise of “Identity Politics”: An Examination and a Critique /Todd Gitlin — Discussion — Contradictions of Existence: Identity and Essentialism /Cameron McCarthy — Contesting Racial Amnesia: From Identity Politics Toward Post-Multiculturalism /Michael Dyson — Discussion — Identity and the Status of Afro-American Intellectuals /Jerry Watts — Discussion — Contributors — Index.
