{"product_id":"the-right-to-learn-isbn-9780807045152","title":"The Right To Learn","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom leaders on the front lines of the battle for academic freedom in higher education, an empowering collection on fighting back against anti-CRT policies, book banning, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning over 40 years of contested history through to today, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e speaks out fearlessly against the far right’s decades-long war against intellectual freedom. This essential anthology outlines and contextualizes the culture wars’ demonization of critical race theory, Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, and other hot-button issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction that places the current crisis within the broader context of the ongoing attacks on American democracy, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e features the testimony and analysis of activists, scholars, and attorneys with firsthand experience in the struggle against well-funded conservative groups’ assaults on academic freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn impassioned, inspired resource for those fighting on the ground for the right to learn, this anthology is structured in 3 parts designed to equip educators with the necessary tools to understand the battle—and to fight back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePART 1\u003c\/b\u003e explores educational gag laws, featuring, among others, PEN America staff members \u003cb\u003eJonathan Friedman\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJeremy C. Young\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eJames Tager\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePART 2\u003c\/b\u003e offers perspectives on key issues from those on the front lines: activists, educators, and attorneys like \u003cb\u003eDennis Parker\u003c\/b\u003e, director of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePART 3\u003c\/b\u003e investigates the implications of undermining academic freedom, with insight from experts such as \u003cb\u003eSharon D. Austin\u003c\/b\u003e, one of the professors barred by the University of Florida from testifying against a restrictive voting rights law and a plaintiff in the main legal case against Ron DeSantis’s “Stop WOKE Act.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As they confront today’s attack on higher education, \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e’s expert contributors reveal that what’s at stake is the pursuit of the real-world and contemporary knowledge a democratic polity requires\u003ci\u003eForeword, by Irene Mulvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eA Time for Faculty to Act\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I—THE CURRENT CULTURE WAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003eAcademic Freedom and Political Repression from McCarthyism to Trump\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllen Schrecker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2\u003cbr\u003eA Koch-Funded Racial Backlash: Understanding the Critical Race Theory Moral Panic\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsaac Kamola\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of Educational Gag Orders\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Friedman, Jeremy C. Young, and James Tager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003cbr\u003eThe Epistemology of Ignorance and Its Impact on Democracy and Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValerie C. Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II—WHITE RAGE, TWISTED LAWS, AND PATRIARCHAL CONTROL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge and Good Community Organizing Can Counter the “Divisive Concepts” Campaign\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin McGruder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6\u003cbr\u003eSubverting the Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDennis Parker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7\u003cbr\u003e“Don’t Say Gay” and Can’t Be Trans: Behind the Anti-LGBTQ+ Schooling Agenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonnet Gabbard, Anne Mitchell, and Heather Montes Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III—COLLECTIVE ACTION AND VISIBLE RESISTANCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8\u003cbr\u003eThe Resolutions: Mobilizing Faculty Senates to Defend Academic Freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Ruth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9\u003cbr\u003eSilence Gets Us Nowhere: Faculty Responses to Anti-CRT and Divisive Concepts Legislation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Sklaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10\u003cbr\u003eAcademic Freedom: It’s a Question of Job Security\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelena Worthen and Joe Berry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 11\u003cbr\u003eMy Battle to Preserve Academic Freedom at the University of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSharon D. Wright Austin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 12\u003cbr\u003eFlorida Faculty Unions and the Struggle for Public Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatie Rainwater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 13\u003cbr\u003eSchools of Education Under Fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarvin Lynn, Michael E. Dantley, and Lynn M. Gangone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e“Over the past decade, the Right’s assault on American higher education has become openly authoritarian, taking as its model Viktor Orbán’s decimation of Hungary’s universities. \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e is the most compelling response to date—and one of the most important books ever published about higher education in the United States. Read it \u003ci\u003eright now\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University, and author of \u003ci\u003eWhat’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This timely and urgent volume historicizes contemporary attacks on the right to read, think, and write, connecting the struggle for academic freedom to broader social and political movements for justice. By turns deeply personal and sharply analytic, contributors describe not just how we got here but, crucially, where we must go next in the fight for the world we want.”\u003cbr\u003e—Emily Drabinski, 2023-2024 president of the American Library Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Book banning, education gag orders, threats to school boards and attacks on teachers: Where is it all coming from? Why? Read this bracing, essential book to understand—and to learn how you can help stop the wrecking of our public schools.”\u003cbr\u003e—Nancy MacLean, author of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eValerie C. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is associate provost of diversity, equity, and inclusion and associate professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research and teaching explore the intersections of race and class. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Power in the Suburbs: The Myth or Reality of African American Suburban Political Incorporation\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePower in the City: Clarence Stone and the Politics of Inequity\u003c\/i\u003e with Marion Orr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Ruth\u003c\/b\u003e is associate dean in the College of the Arts and professor in the School of Film at Portland State University. She has written about academic freedom and higher education in publications such as the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTruthout\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAcademe\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInside Higher Ed\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMs\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent book, cowritten with Michael Bérubé, is \u003ci\u003eIt’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Schrecker\u003c\/b\u003e is well known for her scholarship on McCarthyism and higher education. 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