Jennifer Ruth

Foreword, by Irene Mulvey

INTRODUCTION
A Time for Faculty to Act
Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker

PART I—THE CURRENT CULTURE WAR

CHAPTER 1
Academic Freedom and Political Repression from McCarthyism to Trump
Ellen Schrecker

CHAPTER 2
A Koch-Funded Racial Backlash: Understanding the Critical Race Theory Moral Panic
Isaac Kamola

CHAPTER 3
The Rise of Educational Gag Orders
Jonathan Friedman, Jeremy C. Young, and James Tager

CHAPTER 4
The Epistemology of Ignorance and Its Impact on Democracy and Higher Education
Valerie C. Johnson

PART II—WHITE RAGE, TWISTED LAWS, AND PATRIARCHAL CONTROL

CHAPTER 5
Knowledge and Good Community Organizing Can Counter the “Divisive Concepts” Campaign
Kevin McGruder

CHAPTER 6
Subverting the Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment
Dennis Parker

CHAPTER 7
“Don’t Say Gay” and Can’t Be Trans: Behind the Anti-LGBTQ+ Schooling Agenda
Sonnet Gabbard, Anne Mitchell, and Heather Montes Ireland

PART III—COLLECTIVE ACTION AND VISIBLE RESISTANCE

CHAPTER 8
The Resolutions: Mobilizing Faculty Senates to Defend Academic Freedom
Jennifer Ruth

CHAPTER 9
Silence Gets Us Nowhere: Faculty Responses to Anti-CRT and Divisive Concepts Legislation
Sarah Sklaw

CHAPTER 10
Academic Freedom: It’s a Question of Job Security
Helena Worthen and Joe Berry

CHAPTER 11
My Battle to Preserve Academic Freedom at the University of Florida
Sharon D. Wright Austin

CHAPTER 12
Florida Faculty Unions and the Struggle for Public Education
Katie Rainwater

CHAPTER 13
Schools of Education Under Fire
Marvin Lynn, Michael E. Dantley, and Lynn M. Gangone

Appendix
List of Contributors
Notes