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Author: Michael Bauman Publisher: Contemporary Issues (Prometheu ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 280
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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 criticized 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? - Should accrediting bodies require a commitment to diversity? - What is political correctness? - Should the traditional canon of the great works of Western literature be replaced, amended, or remain the same? - Do minority study programs really benefit the people they are supposed to help? - Are "speech codes" on college campuses inconsistent with the First Amendment? 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.
Author: Michael Bauman Publisher: Contemporary Issues (Prometheu ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
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 criticized 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? - Should accrediting bodies require a commitment to diversity? - What is political correctness? - Should the traditional canon of the great works of Western literature be replaced, amended, or remain the same? - Do minority study programs really benefit the people they are supposed to help? - Are "speech codes" on college campuses inconsistent with the First Amendment? 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.
Author: Henry Beard Publisher: ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 212
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Newly expanded and up-to-the-minute, a bestselling guide to survival in multicultural America in the sensitive 1990s. Includes even more real and satirical definitions to help keep thought cops away. Illustrated throughout.
Author: Robert Maranto Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0844743178 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 342
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Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading. --Michael Schwartz, president emeritus, Kent State University and Cleveland State University
Author: Michael S. Roth Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300248725 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 165
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From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the noisy debates surrounding affirmative action, political correctness, and free speech, urging us to envision college as a space in which students are empowered to engage with criticism and with a variety of ideas. Countering the increasing cynical dismissal—from both liberals and conservatives—of the traditional core values of higher education, this book champions the merits of different diversities, including intellectual diversity, with a timely call for universities to embrace boldness, rigor, and practical idealism.
Author: James Finn Garner Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA ISBN: 9780783815022 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 148
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Another enlightened collection from the bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner continues his mission to liberate our classic fairy tales from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices with a new collection of humorous tales for readers of evolved consciousness. 13 line drawings.
Author: PC Committee (U.S.) Publisher: ISBN: 9780898154474 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 59
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A tongue in cheek questionaire determines whether one has politically correct attitudes toward the elderly, minorities, the handicapped, women, homosexuals, animals, and those who are larger, smaller, or look different
Author: Rudyard Griffiths Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 1487005261 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 128
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The twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer Stephen Fry and University of Toronto professor and author Jordan Peterson to debate the implications of political correctness and freedom of speech. Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange of ideas? Or, by confronting head-on the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalized groups are we creating a more equitable and just society? For some the argument is clear. Political correctness is stifling the free and open debate that fuels our democracy. It is also needlessly dividing one group from another and promoting social conflict. Others insist that creating public spaces and norms that give voice to previously marginalized groups broadens the scope of free speech. The drive towards inclusion over exclusion is essential to creating healthy, diverse societies in an era of rapid social change.
Author: John K. Wilson Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822317135 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 228
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The classics of Western culture are out, not being taught, replaced by second-rate and Third World texts. White males are a victimized minority on campuses across the country, thanks to affirmative action. Speech codes have silenced anyone who won't toe the liberal line. Feminists, wielding their brand of sexual correctness, have taken over. These are among the prevalent myths about higher education that John K. Wilson explodes. The phrase "political correctness" is on everyone's lips, on radio and television, and in newspapers and magazines. The phenomenon itself, however, has been deceptively described. Wilson steps into the nation's favorite cultural fray to reveal that many of the most widely publicized anecdotes about PC are in fact more myth than reality. Based on his own experience as a student and in-depth research, he shows what's really going on beneath the hysteria and alarmism about political correctness and finds that the most disturbing examples of thought policing on campus have come from the right. The image of the college campus as a gulag of left-wing totalitarianism is false, argues Wilson, created largely through the exaggeration of deceptive stories by conservatives who hypocritically seek to silence their political opponents. Many of today's most controversial topics are here: multiculturalism, reverse discrimination, speech codes, date rape, and sexual harassment. So are the well-recognized protagonists in the debate: Dinesh D'Souza, William Bennett, and Lynne Cheney, among others. In lively fashion and in meticulous detail, Wilson compares fact to fiction and lays one myth after another to rest, revealing the double standard that allows "conservative correctness" on college campuses to go unchallenged.
Author: Loretta Graziano Bruening Publisher: ISBN: 9781941959114 Category : Human behavior Languages : en Pages : 210
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I was politically correct for decades. Then one day I caught myself lying about a simple fact to make it sound more politically correct. It happened while I was lecturing to 150 students. I froze. Enough! In that moment, I decided to take back my brain. It cost me, but it had benefits too. Here is the story of how I came to question my political correctness, and how I learned to feel good and be good without it. You can too!
Author: Michael Bauman
Author: Michael Bauman
Author: Henry Beard
Author: James Finn Garner
Author: Robert Maranto
Author: Michael S. Roth
Author: James Finn Garner
Author: PC Committee (U.S.)
Author: Rudyard Griffiths
Author: John K. Wilson
Author: Loretta Graziano Bruening