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Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty book cover

1st Edition

Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

By Henry A. Giroux Copyright 2012
80 Pages
by Routledge

80 Pages
by Routledge

80 Pages
by Routledge
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Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young... Read more

1. Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues  2. Memories of Hope and Youth in the Age of Disposability  3. Racialized Memories and Class Identities: Thinking about Youth in Post-9/11 America  4. Beyond America’s Culture of Cruelty  5. Youth Fighting Back in the Age of Casino Capitalism

Biography

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include: Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? (2009); Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism (2011); On Critical Pedagogy (2011), and Education and the Crisis of Public Values (2012). His website can be found at www.henryagiroux.com.

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