- Subjects
- Published
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Boston :
Beacon Press
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- vi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780807045152
- Foreword
- Introduction A Time for Faculty to Act
- Part I. The Current Culture War
- Chapter 1. Academic Freedom and Political Repression from McCarthyism to Trump
- Chapter 2. A Koch-Funded Racial Backlash: Understanding the Critical Race Theory Moral Panic
- Chapter 3. The Rise of Educational Gag Orders
- Chapter 4. The Epistemology of Ignorance and Its Impact on Democracy and Higher Education
- Part II. White Rage, Twisted Laws, and Patriarchal Control
- Chapter 5. Knowledge and Good Community Organizing Can Counter the "Divisive Concepts" Campaign
- Chapter 6. Subverting the Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment
- Chapter 7. "Don't Say Gay" and Can't Be Trans: Behind the Anti-LGBTQ+ Schooling Agenda
- Part III. Collective Action And Visible Resistance
- Chapter 8. The Resolutions: Mobilizing Faculty Senates to Defend Academic Freedom
- Chapter 9. Silence Gets Us Nowhere: Faculty Responses to Anti-CRT and. Divisive Concepts Legislation
- Chapter 18. Academic Freedom: It's a Question of job Security
- Chapter 11. My Battle to Preserve Academic Freedom at the University of Florida
- Chapter 12. Florida Faculty Unions and the Struggle for Public Education
- Chapter 13. Schools of Education Under Fire
- Appendix
- List of Contributors
- Notes