Unmaking the public university : the forty-year assault on the middle class / Christopher Newfield.

  • Newfield, Christopher.
Date:
2008
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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viii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-367) and index.

Contents

Part I. The meaning of a majoritarian society. 1. The three crises and the mass middle class. 2. Declarations of independence. -- Part II. Inventing PC: the war on equality. 3. The discrediting of social equality. 4. The market substitute for cultural knowledge. 5. From affirmative action to the new economy. 6. The battle for meritocracy. 7. Diversity in the age of pseudo-integration. -- Part III. Market substitutes for general development. 8. Facing the knowledge managers. 9. English's market retreat. 10. The costs of accounting. 11. The problem with privatization. 12.The failure of market measures. 13. Hiding culture's contribution. 14. Half-suffocated reforms -- Part IV. The new war--and after. 15. The blame-academia crowd : culture war after 9/11. Conclusion : Powers of the 100 percent.

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  • 9780674028173
  • 0674028171