Banana RepublicBy Selwyn Duke

Question: How do the following college courses grab you?

  • “The Phallus”
  • “Queer Musicology”
  • “Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration”
  • “Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism”
  • “Native American Feminisms”
  • “Sex Change City: Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco”
  • “Lesbian Pulp Fiction”

No, the preceding are not from the film PCU (Politically Correct U), which, having been released in 1994 and being art imitating life, illustrates for the young’uns how far back “wokeness” goes. Rather, they are from a 2006 essay titled “The Dirty Dozen: America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses.”