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Cold Breezes and Idiot Winds : Patriotic Correctness and the Post-9/11 Assault on Academe by Valerie Scatamburlo-D’ Annibale (auth.), Valerie Scatamburlo-D’ Annibale (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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After 9/11, rightists capitalized on an atmosphere of fear and confusion to resuscitate the “culture wars” of the 1990s and once again targeted the academy. Using tactics reminiscent of the McCarthy era, religious firebrands, militant neoconservatives, and free market fundamentalists engaged in a concerted effort to silence voices critical of the ‘war on terror’ and liken legitimate dissent to treason. Brandishing a discourse of “patriotic correctness” (PC) that was informed by American ‘exceptionalism,’ Christian nationalism, anti-intellectualism, and virulent anti-liberalism, this coalition portrayed the professoriate as a dangerous cabal seeking the demise of ‘Western civilization.’ In Cold Breezes and Idiot Winds, Scatamburlo-D’Annibale explains why the most recent assault on academe must be understood in relation to the right’s broader offensive against liberalism. For decades, conservatives have worked diligently to construct a network of foundations, think tanks, and campus organizations dedicated to demonizing progressive thought, the legacy of the New Deal era, and the democratic social reforms of the 1960s. The author provides a detailed examination of this ideological in

Who reads Cold Breezes and Idiot Winds : Patriotic Correctness and the Post-9/11 Assault on Academe?

Author

Valerie Scatamburlo-D’ Annibale (auth.), Valerie Scatamburlo-D’ Annibale (eds.)

Publisher

SensePublishers; Springer; Sense

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9789460914089

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Political Science, Social Science