How Diversity Hijacked History 101 and All the Humanities
By Mark Bauerlein March 5, 2019
It is getting awfully hard to be a humanities professor. Or rather, it’s getting hard to be a humanities professor and still maintain the heady confidence in the fields that the faculty had 20 years ago. The daily grind of teaching, research, and service haven’t much changed, especially for tenured professors who aren’t touched by the steady increase of adjunct teachers in their departments. But to remember the atmosphere of the 80s and 90s is to experience the loss of prestige, the decline of energy keenly.
Back then, Queer Theory and Gender Studies were new and exciting, taking up ever more oxygen in the journals and presses, conferences and hiring committees. Postcolonialism was, too, a species of political critique that had all the conceptual sophistication of deconstruction and thus avoided the crudities of what was termed “vulgar Marxism.â€
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