The diversity delusion : how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture
by Mac Donald, Heather (Author)
Summary
"America is in crisis, from the campus to the workplace. Toxic ideas--bred in college classrooms and nurtured by politicized scholarship--have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in the larger culture. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton? Oppressive. American history... Full description
- Part I: Race. The hysterical campus ; Elites to affirmative action voters : drop dead ; Affirmative disaster ; The microaggression farce ; Are we all unconscious racists?
- Part II: Gender. The campus rape myth ; Neo-Victorianism on campus ; The fainting couch at Columbia ; Policing sexual desire : the #MeToo movement's impossible premise Part III: The bureaucracy. Multiculti U. ; How identity politics is harming the sciences ; Scandal erupts over the promotion of bourgeois behavior
- Part IV: The purpose of the university. The humanities and us ; Great courses, great profits ; The true purpose of the university ; From culture to cupcakes.