TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giroux,Henry A.
TI  - America on the edge: Henry Giroux on politics, culture, and education 
SN  - 1403971609 (alk. paper)
AV  - LC 196.5 G528a 2006
U1  - 370.11/5 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Critical pedagogy
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Henry Giroux on critical pedagogy and the responsibilities of the public intellectual -- pt. 1. America under siege : authoritarianism and democracy -- The conservative assault on America : cultural politics, education, and the new authoritarianism -- Democracy and the crisis of public education : co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux -- From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib : rethinking representation as public pedagogy -- pt. 2. Against fundamentalism : resisting religious extremism and market orthodoxy -- Rapture politics and the passion of the religious right -- Academic entrepreneurs : the corporate takeover of higher education -- pt. 3. Media pedagogy : rethinking political and cultural literacy -- Roll over George Orwell : representations of Newspeak in Bush's America -- Breaking into the movies : film as cultural politics -- Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence -- pt. 4 Race, surveillance, and social justice -- Racial politics, individualism, and the collapse of the social -- Disposable youth, racism, and the politics of zero tolerance -- pt. 5. Militarization, masculinity, and the spectre of Fascism -- Waging war on democracy : the militarizing of public space -- Private satisfactions and public disorder : Fight Club, patriarchy, and the politics of masculine violence -- pt. 6. Youth, pedagogy, and the politics of hope -- The abandoned generation : the Urban Debate League and the politics of possibility -- Putting youth back into politics : reclaiming education and hope in dark times -- Translating the future : speaking to graduating youth
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