culture wars n.: Kulturkampf [German]

Amid all the hubbub surrounding the defections of [two African-American studies professors] from Harvard to Princeton recently, it went unmentioned that only thirty years ago, African-American studies as we know it today didn’t even exist. Although the Kulturkampf of the 1960s touched many academic disciplines, it was the creation of black studies programs that led to the most rancorous debates on American campuses. (John McMillan, Black Unlike Me [White Boy: A Memoir by Mark D. Naison], The Nation, 07/15/2002.)