Political Correctness: A Response from the Cultural Left

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 22
Politically Correct Fairy Tales......Page 24
A Brief History of the Term Political Correctness......Page 27
Contextualizing the Argument......Page 30
Rhetorical Considerations in the Age of Paranoia......Page 33
The Checklist of Grievances......Page 36
Teachers Who Don't Teach......Page 38
Spies in the Classroom......Page 47
Deciphering the Parchments......Page 51
Appropriating the Center......Page 54
Constructing the PC Metanarrative......Page 60
Much Ado about Gayatri Spivak and Stanley Fish......Page 64
Think Tank Means to Foundational Ends......Page 68
Inoculating the Body Politic......Page 74
The Mythic Parameters of PC Discourse......Page 80
McCarthyism into McReaganism......Page 86
57 Flavors of Intimidation......Page 98
The Process of Paranoid Projection......Page 106
An International Politics of Paranoid Projection......Page 109
Freudian Projection and the Politics of Moral Hubris......Page 115
McReaganism Today: The War to Impeach Clinton......Page 125
Neoconservative Extremists and PC......Page 136
Paranoid Projection and the Lacanian Mirror......Page 149
Paranoid Projection in the Cultural Mirror......Page 152
Boys to Men to Gods......Page 160
The Commodity Exchange in the Cultural Mirror......Page 165
Mapping Images onto the Narrative of Political Correctness......Page 168
The Great Books Lobby......Page 179
Male-Centered Canon Building......Page 184
Scripting Modernity: Woolf's Acts as Case in Point......Page 185
Interpellating the Subject of History......Page 192
Induced Transference onto Big Brother......Page 197
Left in the Mirror......Page 203
8. Where Do We Go from Here?......Page 210
Skip Porteous (Institute For First Amendment Studies)......Page 211
Myrna C. Adams (OpenMind)......Page 213
Curt Shepard (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force)......Page 216
Sandra Coyner (National Women's Studies Association)......Page 222
Gerald Graff and Gregory Jay (Teachers for a Democratic Culture)......Page 227
Stanley Aronowitz (Union of Democratic Intellectuals)......Page 234
Bibliography......Page 244
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W......Page 253