Book Description: What is multiculturalism? The word is used everywhere, often without being clearly defined. The first collection of this scope, Mapping Multiculturalism offers cogent critiques of the term and its uses by leading scholars in sociology, history, literary criticism, popular culture studies, ethnic studies, and critical legal studies...read more

Product Description: This book presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology.Christopher Newfield analyzes the interplay of liberal and authoritarian impulses in Emerson's work in various domains: domestic life, the changing New England economy, theories of poetic language, homoerotic friendship, and racial hierarchy...read more

Product Description: A review of the effect of political correctness on the teaching of the humanities The contributors to this volume see the PC debates as a struggle over the very purposes of higher education in the United States, and offer a discourse on the future of higher education in the light of PC...read more