Books in the Cultural Front series

What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large? This title examines the cultural legitimacy of literary study.

An account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. This book shows how the primary organization for faculty members nationwide has fought the culture wars, Cary Nelson, the current President of the American Association of University Professors, unveils struggles over governance and unionization and more.

Whether global culture is merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization is among the questions addressed in this text on nationalism, culturalism and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.

What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States.

Exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education - a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. This title assesses the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and students at various levels.

Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics.

An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting.