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Bibliography

 

Key Publications from the Right Wing

Anderson, Martin. Imposters in the Temple. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Bennett, William. To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984.

Bernstein, David, ed. Diversity and Division: A Critical Journal of Race and Culture (serial). Madison Center for Educational Affairs.

Bloom, Alan. Closing of the American Mind.. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

D'Souza, Dinesh. Illiberal Education. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

D'Souza, Dinesh. The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society. New York: The Free Press, , 1995, p. 527.

Kimball, Roger. Tenured Radicals. New York: Harper & Row. 1990.

Simon, William. A Time for Truth. New York: Readers Digest Press. 1987.

Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character. New York: St. Martin Press. 1992.

Sykes, Charles J. PROFSCAM: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education. Washington: Regnery Gateway, Inc., 1988.

 

Background on the Right Wing

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1989.

Berlet, Chip, ed., Eyes Right! Challenging the Right-wing Backlash, South End Press, Boston, MA, 1995.

Clarkson, Fred. "Reagan Youth: The War of Ideas," Interchange Report , Winter/Spring 1985.

Economics America, Inc. The Right Guide, Fourth Edition. Ann Arbor: Economics America, Inc. 1997.

Faludi, Susan. Backlash. New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. A definitive book on antifeminism.

Wolf, Louis. "Accuracy in Media Rewrites the News and History." Covert Action. 21 Spring 1984, pp. 24-29.

 

Affirmative Action

Ayres, B. Drummond, "Foes of Affirmative Action Form Group to Spread Message," New York Times, January 16, 1997.

Jascik, Scott, "Affirmative Action under Fire," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 1995.

 

Free Speech and Hate Crimes

American Association of State Colleges and Universities, "How the First Amendment Applies to Offensive Expression on the Campuses of Public Colleges and Universities," and "Academic Freedom and 'Political Correctness," (pamphlets).

Anti-Defamation League. Combatting Bigotry on Campus. New York: 1989. Describes both spontaneous hate crimes and public acts of "organized bigotry" on campus.

Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic. "Overcoming Legal Barriers to Regulating Hate Speech on Campuses," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 1993, pp. B1-B4.

Hively, Robert, Ed. The Lurking Evil: Racial and Ethnic Conflict on the College Campus. Washington: American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 1990.

Keeble, John, "The Southern League: Waving the Confederate Battle Flag, a Growing Group of Deep South Academics Argues for a White Nationalism They Call Cracker Culture," Village Voice, June 11, 1996.

Wilson, Robin. "New White-Student Unions on Some Campuses Are Sparking Outrage and Worry," The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 18, 1990, p. A1.

 

PC Debates

Aufderhide, Patricia, Ed. Beyond P.C. Toward a Politics of Understanding. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1992.

Beers, David. "P.C? B.S.: Behind the Hysteria," Mother Jones, Sept/Oct 1991.

Cockburn, Alexander. "Bush and P.C.-- A Conspiracy So Immense..." The Nation, May 27, 1991. pp. 687, 690-691, 704.

Faludi, Susan, "I'm not a Feminist but I Play one on TV," Ms., March-April, 1995, p. 31.

Raskin, Jamin. "The Fallacies of Political Correctness," Z Magazine. Jan 1992. Examines myths about "political correctness" and common flaws in analyzing censorship.

Wilson, John K., The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

 

Curricular Change/Academic Freedom

Brodkey, Linda. "Transvaluing Difference." College English. Oct. 1989.

Diamond, Sara. "Readin', Writin', and Repressin.'" Z Magazine. Feb 1991.

Duster, Troy. "They're Taking Over! and Other Myths about Race on Campus." Mother Jones, Sept/Oct 1991.

Glazer, Myron and Glazer. Whistle Blowers. New York: Basic Books. Looks at what happens to professors who speak up about discrimination in the academy.

Messer-Davidow, Ellen. "Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education." Social Text. Summer 1993, p.40-80.

Rothenberg, Paula. "Critics of Attempts to Democratize the Curriculum..." Chronicle of Higher Education. April 10, 1991.

Soley, Lawrence C., Leasing the Ivory Tower, South End Press, 1995.

Stedt, Margaret, "Curricular Change: Still Under Fire at Georgetown University," from a forthcoming issue of the newsletter of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, Spring 1997.

Trask, Haunani-Kay. "Firing of Progressive Professors: The Politics of Academic Freedom vs. the Politics of White Racism." From a Native Daughter. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1993.

Weisberg, Jacob. "NAS: Who Are These Guys Anyway?" Lingua Franca, April 1991.

Wiener, John. "Campus Voices Right and Left" The Nation. December 12, 1988.

Williams, Patricia J., "Blockbusting the Canon." Ms. Sept.-Oct. 1991. An African-American law professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin looks at the PC war on campus, in her classes, and against her.

 

Funding

Bellant, Russ. The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism. Cambridge MA: Political Research Associates, April 1990. Analyzes a network of ultra-conservative institutions financed by Coors affecting many progressive movements.

Bleifuss, Joel, "Doing Right by the Campus Left," In These Times, Jan. 22, 1996

Cowan, Rich, "Developing a Youth Strategy: Lessons from the Right," in Responsive Philanthrophy, Newsletter of the Nat'l Comm. for Responsive Philanthropy, Spring 1997.

Egen, Rachel, "Buying a Movement: Right-Wing Foundations and American Politics," Washington, DC: People for the American Way, 1996.

Greene, Stephen and Jennifer Moore, " Conservative Foundations on the Move," The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 23, 1995.

Kuntz, Phil, "Citizen Scaife: Heir Turned Publisher Uses Financial Largess to Fuel Conservatism," Wall Street Journal, 10/12/95 p. A5.

Mundy, Liza. "The Dirty Dozen: Academia's Skankiest Funder." Lingua Franca. March/April, 1993, pp. 1, 24-31.

Messer-Davidow, Ellen "Who (Ac)Counts and How." MMLA Journal 27, 1 (Spring 1994): 26-41.

Messer-Davidow, Ellen, "Dollars for Scholars: The Real Politics of Humanities Scholarship and Programs," The Politics of Research, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and George Levine (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997).

Miner, Barbara, "The Power and the Money: Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Conservative Agenda," Rethinking Schools, Spring 1994, Vol. 8, No. 3.

Rothmayer, Karen. "The Mystery Angel of the New Right," The Washington Post. July 12, 1981. pp. C1, C4.

Rothmeyer, Karen. "Citizen Scaife." Columbia Journalism Review. July/August, 1981, pp. 41-50.

Rothmeyer, Karen. "Scaife's Seed Money Helps New Right Blossom." Common Cause. August, 1981.

Saloma, John S. III. Ominous Politics: New Conservative Labyrinth. New York: Hill & Wang Pub, 1984. Explains the self-perpetuating funding net of the Right.

Stefanic, Jean and Richard Delgado, No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda, Temple University Press, 1997.

Warner, David. "Scaife: Financier of the Right," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 20, 1981.

Wiener, Jon. "Money for Neo-Conservative Scholars." The Nation. Jan 1, 1990.

 

Religious Right/Anti-choice

Bloedow, Jonathan, "God and Journalism on Campus," World, April 4, 1995.

"Christian Coalition Expands Its Agenda," Human Events. Nov. 6,1993.

Clarkson, Frederick and Skipp Porteous. Challenging the Christian Right: The Activist's Handbook. Institute for First American Studies, Inc. PO Box 589, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 274-3786.

Diamond, Sara. Spiritual Warfare. South End Press, 1989.

Southern Educational Communications. Firing Line Debate. "Resolved: We need not fear the Christian Right" Video #114. Aired by PBS, 1993. 2700 Cypress St Columbia, SC 29205. (803) 799-3449.

 

 

Campus Newspapers

Bloedow, Jonathan, " God and Journalism pn Campus," World, April, 1 1995, p 12

Schulman, Beth, "Foundations for a Movement: How the Right Wing Subsidizes its Press," EXTRA!, March/April 95, p. 12

Seligman, Miles and Cymbre Simpson. "Behind Right-Wing Campus Newspapers," EXTRA!, Sept/Oct 1991, p. 9.

Smith, Jeremy, Students, "Faculty and Political Engagment" Social Text, Summer 1997

 

Pro-militarism

"The Cold Warriors." Common Cause Magazine. July/August, 1985.

Desruisseaux, Paul. "Expanding International Study." The Chronicle of Higher Education. Nov. 24, 1993, pp. A34-35. Detailed look at the National Security Education Act.

Landis, Fred. "CIA Psychological Warfare Operations in Nicaragua, Chile and Jamaica," Science for the People. Jan/Feb 1982.

Relyea, Harold C. "The American Security Council." The Nation. January 24, 1972, pp. 113-16.

 

Other Bibliographies

Nordquist, Joan, Compiler. The Multicultural Education Debate in the University: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services. 1992. Number 25 in the Contemporary Social Issues series.

Political Research Associates. Extensive bibliographies on "Political Correctness" & Multiculturalism; Conservatism and the Electoral Right Wing; Race, Ethnicity, Religion & Culture; Gender, Sexuality & Sexual Preference; Authoritarianism, Fascism, Nazism & Totalitarianism; Homophobia & the Religious & Political Right; the Holocaust; Political Repression; Wise Use/Property Rights Movement; and various individuals with histories of Right-wing involvement.

 

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