Beyond PC : toward a politics of understanding / edited and with an introduction by Patricia Aufderheide.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gay and lesbian studies for everyone / Martin Duberman -- Stereotypes and sensibilities / Shawn Wong -- Remembering the bad old days / Roger Wilkins -- Canons to the right of them ... / Paula Bennett -- Beyond PC. The politics of innocence / Harry C. Boyte -- The politics of public relations / Sara M. Evans -- Beyond the myths / Troy Duster -- On the virtues of a loose canon / Todd Gitlin -- Defending the gains / Patricia J. Williams -- The multicultural west/ Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Campus communities beyond consensus / Joan Wallach Scott.

Attack on PC. The wrong way to reduce campus tensions / The National Association of Scholars -- The Visigoths in tweed / Dinesh D'Souza -- Literary politics / George F. Will -- Freedom and the universities / C. Vann Woodward -- "Speech codes" and free speech / Nat Hentoff -- Multiculturalism, transculturalism, and the great books / Mortimer J. Adler -- The counterattack. Statement of principles / Teachers for a Democratic Culture -- A short history of the term politically correct / Ruth Perry -- NAS-- who are these guys, anyway? / Jacob Weisberg -- The funding of the NAS / Sara Diamond -- What happened at Harvard / Jon Wiener -- What happened at SUNY / David Beers -- What happened to English 306 / Linda Brodkey, Shelli Fowler -- What happened at Duke / Nina King -- Surplus visibility / Katharine T. Bartlett -- "In my experience ..." What revolution at Stanford? / Raoul V. Mowatt -- What campus radicals? / Rosa Ehrenreich -- Politically correct is politically suspect / Miles Harvey -- Political correctness and identity politics / Barbara Epstein.