1st Edition
Caught in the Crossfire Kids, Politics, and America's Future
By Lawrence Grossberg
Copyright 2005
406 Pages
by
Routledge
406 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
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Caught in the Crossfire reveals how the United States has been gradually changing from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is hostile to and afraid of its own children. Today kids are often seen as a threat to our social and moral values. In schools, some behavior is criminalized, and growing numbers of kids find themselves in penal and psychiatric confinement. This breakdown is... Read more
Introduction; Part I America’s War on Its Children; Chapter 1 Kids, the Enemy Within; Chapter 2 Life in the War Zone; Chapter 3 Accounting for the Kids; Part II The Contemporary Political Field; Chapter 4 Neoliberalism; Chapter 5 The New Conservatism; Chapter 6 Liberalism and the Left; Chapter 7 Kids Out of Time (Unsettling Modernity); Part III The Coming American Modernity; Chapter 8 The Struggle for “American Modernity”; Chapter 9 Reconstructing Political Culture; Chapter 10 Reconstructing Economic Life; Chapter 11 Reconstructing Cultural Life; conclusion Kids and the Dilemma of American Politics;
Biography
Lawrence Grossberg
