CULTURE WARS IN ACADEME

• The canon: Dead white males or a new rainbow of authors? The battle over what to teach

• Multiculturalism: The scholarly movement to look at non-white cultures

• Cultural studies: The academic approach to music, movies, the media, and other aspects of popular culture

• History: How debates over race and class have changed teaching and research in history

• Literature: Beyond belles-lettres -- articles on the debates over what works should be studied and a look at the scholarship that is being done

• Women's, gender, and gay studies: The latest trends in scholarship and teaching about gender, and on the impact of these new and sometimes controversial approaches

• Political correctness: From speech codes to campus mascots, the issue that defined much of the culture-wars debate

• The battle for public opinion: how the combatants in the culture wars have sought support for their views