Cole, Nat King, 169
College House, 338
Combs, Sean “P. Diddy,” 167
conformity:
in Black Studies, 177
in identity studies, 337, 338
political checklists, 13
in Queer Studies, 184–85, 205
in Women’s Studies, 47, 48–49, 53, 76, 89, 92
Connell, Raewyn, 317
Connell, Robert W., Masculinities, 317
consciousness-raising, 17–18, 106, 114
Constitution, U.S., xii, xvi, 29, 100–101, 348
Converse, Joshua, 345–46
Cooley, Sara Alicia, 48
Corbett, Sara, 63–64
Cornish, Megan, 279–80
Corral, Wilfrido, 14
Cosby, Bill, 163–64, 166–72
Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John de, Letters from an American Farmer, xii
Crip Studies, see Disability Studies
Crisis, The (NAACP), 132
Crosby, Edward, 125
Cuadros, Gil, 265, 269
Cuban Revolution, 18–19, 22, 268, 280, 283
Cullen, Countee, 178
Cultural Studies, 291–302
collective thinking in, 300, 301
indefinability of, 293–95, 300
and intersectionality, 291, 293
language and politics of, 296–98, 346
legitimacy of, 301
and literature, 293–96
and postmodernism, 294, 300
self-absorption in, 300–301
shallowness of, 301–2
Cultural Studies Association, 1–4, 178
Cultural Studies Association Conference, 1–4, 80, 178–80, 266, 291–93, 297–302, 306–9
Cummings, Susan, 108
Dahmer, Jeffrey, 224–26
Daly, Mary, 63–64, 113
Declaration of Independence, U.S., xii, xiii, xvi, 28–29, 100–101, 284, 348
deconstruction, 6–8, 13–14, 24
Delfin, Eve, 273–74
D’Emilio, John, 190
Derrida, Jacques, 6, 24, 144, 184
destabilization, 31–32
Diaz, David, 246–49, 290
Dill, Bonnie Thornton, 44
Diop, Cheikh Anta, 154
Director, Sheana, 312
disabilities:
expanding the definition of, 308
objective reality of, 302–3
Disability (Crip) Studies, 302–9
and abortion, 305–8
and group vs. individual rights, 306–8
and intersectionality, 304–5
missions of, 303–4
physical impairment vs. social disability in, 304
and political correctness, 38
and postmodernism, 302–4
and social constructionism, 302, 309
and somanormativity, 306
and technology, 309
diversity, xii, xiii, xiv, xvi, 141, 249
Donoghue, Denis, 343
Donovan, Josephine, 70
dualism, 120
Duberman, Martin, 219
Du Bois, W. E. B., 128–31
Dark Princess, 178
on double consciousness, 130, 133
and education, 128, 129–30, 174
influence of, 130–31, 152
Lenin Prize to, 130
and NAACP, 128
and Niagara Movement, 129
and Talented Tenth, 129, 151, 152
The Souls of Black Folk, 129–31
Durán, Robert J., 285–86
Durate, Cynthia, 258
Durkheim, Émile, 24
Dutton, Denis, 217
Dworkin, Andrea, 65–66
Dynes, Wayne R., 187–89, 190, 222
Dyson, Michael Eric, 164–71
Eagleton, Terry, 300
Edelman, Lee, 227–29, 315
education:
English departments, 11
goals of, 29, 328
identity politics in, 335–40
philosophy departments, 11
radicalism and laxity in, 340–41
student activism in, 11, 133–36, 138, 142, 232–37, 245–48
El Grito, 237
Ellis, John M., Against Deconstruction, 13–14
Ellison, Ralph, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, 188, 222
Enlightenment, 188–89
Fanon, Frantz, 129, 142
The Wretched of the Earth, 14, 20–23, 132
Farrakhan, Louis, 159
Farrell, Amy, 310
fat activism, 82, 312
Fat Studies, 38, 82, 309–15
and obesity, 310, 314, 315
and therapy, 314
and victimhood, 313
Fat Studies Reader, 309
Fat Underground, 312
feminism, 54–70, 77–79, 112–14
and abortion, 67, 120, 306
backlash against, 78
Chicana, 241–44, 271–79
critics of, 68
double standard in, 68
first-wave, 54–55
fourth-wave, 120
French, 89–90
and gay rights, 277
and generation gap, 49–50, 52, 53–54
mainstream ideas of, 68–69
“Manifesto of the 343,” 56
and multiculturalism, 113
and NWSA, 44, 47
outsider, 90
and Queer Theory, 207–8
rape-crisis movement, 64–67
rape rhetoric of, 114
second-wave, 54, 55–67, 68, 70, 77, 91, 100, 103, 111, 112–13, 119, 308
self-preoccupation of, 79, 106
and sisterhood, 51, 70
third-wave, 54, 86–87, 106–7, 119, 308
transnational, 45–46
twenty-first-century, 44–46, 48
“womanism,” 177–78
and Women’s Lib, 41, 51, 56–60
feminist literary criticism, 7, 77, 78–79
Feminist Press, 73
Feminist Studies, 72
Feminist Teacher, 69, 72, 103
Ferguson, Roderick, 182–83
Flores, Estevan, 241
Ford, Nick Aaron, Black Studies, 127–28
Ford Foundation, 73, 264, 349
Foster, Frances Smith, 107
Foucault, Michel, 11–12, 24, 31
and healthism, 314
on hegemony, 46–47
and postmodernism, 11, 144
and Queer Studies, 12, 183, 184, 190, 191–99, 207, 208
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), 14, 333
Frankenberg, Ruth, 321
Frankfurt School, 24, 32
Franklin, John Hope, 175
Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 14, 16–20, 21, 22, 23, 70, 71
Friedan, Betty:
death of, 77
fading influence of, 45, 46, 66, 69, 76–77, 84, 103
and lesbians, 112
as second-wave feminist, 62, 77, 100
The Feminine Mystique, 43, 56–60, 67, 77
Frye, Marilyn, 200
Gales, Jihan N., 176
García, Alma M., 242
García, Mario, 239
Garcia, Velia, 242
Garrett, Jimmy, 133
Garvey, Marcus, 172
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. “Skip,” 143–49, 150, 158, 162–63, 164
Figures in Black, 144–45
and Harvard, 126, 127, 143, 148, 169
The Signifying Monkey, 145–46
gay rights movement, 187, 277
gays, see Queer Studies
gaze, 30–31, 50, 81, 146
Geertz, Clifford, 10
gender:
in identity studies, 34–35, 38–39, 46
see also Men’s Studies; Women’s Studies
gender essentialism, 68
gender stereotypes, 85, 87, 88–89
Gender Studies, 74–75
Gilbert, Sandra, 77
Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice, 86–87, 89
Gioia, Dana, 278
Giovanni, Nikki, 139
Goldberger, Nancy Rule, 88
Goldstein, Richard, 205, 210
Gómez-Quiñones, Juan, 240
Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky,” 247
“I Am Joaquín,” 233–34, 241
González, Henry B., 256
Gonzalez, Omar, 265–66, 270
Gordon, Lewis R. and Jane Anna, eds., A Companion to African-American Studies, 129, 133
Graff, Gerald, 19
Gramsci, Antonio, 26, 293, 295
Prison Notebooks, 14–16, 23
Great Books, 345–46, 349
“Great Conversation,” 329
Green, Herb, 220–21
Greenstone, Lori, 307
Greer, Germaine:
fading influence of, 45, 62, 66, 76, 84, 103
and oppression, 42, 43, 52, 61
and second-wave feminism, 62, 100
The Female Eunuch, 41, 61–62
Groth, Miles, 317–20
Gubar, Susan, 77
Guevara, Che, 19, 280
Guido, Gibran, 267–69
Gullah language, 131
Gunther, John, 330
Gutiérrez, José Angel, 256
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, 44
Guzman, Manuel, 246
Haack, Susan, 85, 88
Hall, Stuart, 294
Halperin, David, 189, 191–99, 208, 209
Hansberry, Lorraine, 139
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 43
Hare, Nathan, 142
Hartley, George, 233, 285
Harvard University, Black Studies at, 126, 136, 143, 147–48, 150
Hayakawa, S. I., 135
healthism, 314
Heasley, Robert, 317, 318
hegemonic masculinity, coining of term, 317
hegemony:
and Chicano Studies, 251, 273
concept of, 15–16, 17, 46
and Women’s Studies, 46–47
Heidenreich, Linda, This Land Was Mexican Once, 257
Heredia, Alberto Urista, 234
higher education, see education
Hill, Deneil, 48
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 340
Hirschfeld, Magnus, 185–86, 187, 210, 216, 220, 222
Hitchcock, Jeff, 322
Hitler, Adolf, 15, 186
Hobsbawm, E. J., 259
Hoffman, Nancy, 70–71
Hoggart, Richard, 293
Homosexuality: A Research Guide (Dynes), 187
homosexuality, see Queer Studies
honor killing, 116–18
hooks, bell, 45–46
Hooters, 291–93
Horkheimer, Max, 24
Horowitz, David, 320
Huggins, John Jerome, 160
Hughes, Langston, 178
humanities:
and aesthetic merit, 7
author’s studies in, 329–30, 344–45
concept of hegemony in, 15–16
and Cultural Studies, 293–96
and deconstruction, 6–8, 13–14
education in, 325–29, 340
Great Books, 345–46, 349
and the Great Conversation, 329
hope for, 331–32, 346
influences on modern teaching of, 14–15, 23–25
learning to think, 328
losing their way, 342
political checklists applied to, 13
and postmodernism, 8–10, 31–33
research ideal emerging in, 12
and secular humanism, 10–12, 32–33
truth sought in, 8, 12
use of term, 4–6
values in, 12, 23
Hurricane Alice, 74
Hurricane Katrina, 297
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 329
Iannone, Carol, 341
identity politics, 335–40
and Chicano Studies, 231–32, 253
identity studies:
African American, see Black Studies
arguments against, 330–31
bean counters of, 149
as betrayal of America’s promise, 329
in Cal State system, 231–32, 244, 246, 248, 347
categories of analysis in, 34
conformity in, 337, 338
Cultural Studies, 293–95, 300
Disability Studies, 302–9
gender in, 34–35, 38–39, 46; see also Men’s Studies; Women’s Studies
homosexual, see Queer Studies
intersectionality in, 34–36, 38–39, 44–46, 177–78, 250, 293
opposition to, 347–50
personal confession in, 269
and Queer Theory, 12
research interests in, 341–42
rise of, xiv, xv, xvi, 82, 122
social constructionism in, 29–32
as totalitarian orthodoxies, 331
Ignatieff, Michael, xii
Internet, 332
interrogation, 31
intersectionality, 34–36, 38–39, 77, 250, 313
and abortion rights, 305–6
and Black Studies, 177–78
in Cultural Studies, 291, 293–95
and Disability Studies, 304–5
and oppression, 33, 35–36
in Women’s Studies, 44–46
intervention, 32
Irigaray, Luce, 89
Irwin, Robert, 301
Islam:
and Black Studies, 132, 155–56, 158–59
and Cultural Studies, 298, 299
and gay violence in Germany, 218
and honor killing, 116–18
scholars of, 237
Jackson, Jesse, 164, 167, 170–71, 172
Jacobowitz, Eden, 332–35
James, Henry, “The Beast in the Jungle,” 212, 215
James, Stanlee, 108–9
Jameson, Frederic, 24
Jeffries, Leonard, 125
Johansson, Warren, 188
Johnson, Allan G., 92, 94
Johnson, Lyndon B., 158
Johnston, Jill, 41–43
Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), 139–41
Journal of Negro History, 131
Kameny, Franklin, 187, 195
Kant, Immanuel, 188, 217
Karenga, Maulana Ron, 154–62, 163, 164, 172
Black Studies defined by, 154
and founding of Black Studies, 136–37
on growth of Black Studies, 135, 136, 142, 158
Introduction to Black Studies, 131, 136, 153–54, 160–62
and Kawaida philosophy, 131, 139, 159–61
and reparations movement, 157
Katz, Jonathan Ned, 190
Kaufman, Ed, 222
Kawaida philosophy, 131, 139, 159–61
Kay, Barbara, 322
Kertbeny, Karl-Maria, 185
Kilian, Eveline, 227
Kilson, Martin, 147–49
King, Martin Luther Jr., 129, 141, 152, 158, 159, 172, 173
Kirk, Gwyn, 91
Kirk, Marshall, 224
Koertge, Noretta, 72, 73, 76, 111
Kors, Alan Charles, 165–66, 295–96, 333–40
History of the Enlightenment (ed.), 14
on identity politics, 335–40
and Jacobowitz case, 333–35
Kozlowski, MaryAnn, 310–11
Kramer, Arthur, 218–20
Kramer, Larry, 218
Kristeva, Julia, 89
Kristof, Nicholas, 114
Kronman, Anthony T., Education’s End, 10–11, 12
Kushner, Tony, 205, 208, 210
Lacan, Jacques, 24, 144
language theory, 89–90
Larsen, Neil, 300, 301
Latin Liberation Front, 245–46
Latino/a Thought, 281–84
Lauretis, Teresa de, 207
Le Doeuff, Michèle, The Sex of Knowing, 85
Legg, W. Dorr, 187
Lenin, V. I., 18, 28, 61, 280, 335
Lesbian Avengers, 203
lesbians:
and Women’s Studies, 59, 112
see also Queer Studies
Levin, Richard, 6
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 9, 24
liberal education, core values of, 340
literature:
African American, 127–31, 146–47
and Cultural Studies, 293–96
feminist literary criticism, 7, 77, 78–79
Great Books, 345–46, 349
and Men’s Studies, 315–16
queering of, 211–12
logic, as tool of male oppression, 85
London, Herbert, 341
Longeaux y Vásquez, Enriqueta, 241
Lorber, Judith, 96
Lorde, Audre, 108–9
Lukács, Georg, 24, 32
Luna, Jennie, 271–73, 274
MacKinnon, Catharine, 65–66
Madden, Jamie, 108
Madsen, Hunter, 224
Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, 77
Maher, Bill, 150, 164
Mailer, Norman, 41–43, 62
Malcolm X, 140, 158, 172
male bonding, coining of term, 316
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 9
Man, Paul de, 6
Mancillas, Jorge R., 245
Mao Zedong, 18, 41, 61, 331
Little Red Book, 132, 133
Marcuse, Herbert, 24, 334
Marshall, Jennifer Lynn Freeman, 108, 110
Marshall, Thurgood, 132
Martinez, Samuel C., 240
Marx, Karl, 24, 28, 32
and Cultural Studies, 295, 296
Kapital, 296
and Queer Studies, 183, 184
Marxism:
and Chicano Studies, 238–39, 240, 242, 259, 279–84
and Cultural Studies, 300
and Freire, 17
and second-wave feminists, 61, 62
Masterson, Mark, 213, 215–16
McIntosh, Mary, 191
McIntosh, Peggy, 88
McVeigh, Timothy, 226
McWhorter, John, 175, 176–77