The abandoned generation : democracy beyond the culture of fear / Henry A. Giroux.

Author
Giroux, Henry A. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Description
xxii, 234 pages ; 22 cm

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    Explores what the author calls the culture of fear that has arisen in the United States since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, focusing on how the situation is affecting youth, specifically through assaults on public schools, in Hollywood images, and with the commercialization of higher education.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-230) and index.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction : War against youth in the post-9/11 era
    • Public time versus emergency time : politics, terrorism, and the culture of fear
    • Democracy, patriotism, and schooling after September 11 : critical citizens or unthinking patriots?
    • Global capitalism and the return of the garrison state : rethinking hope in the age of in-security
    • Leaving most children behind : public education under siege
    • Teen girls' resistance and the disappearing social in Ghost world
    • From manchild to baby boy : race and the politics of self-help
    • Higher education, inc. : training students to be consumers.
    ISBN
    • 1403961387
    • 9781403961389
    • 1403965366
    • 9781403965363
    LCCN
    2002035514
    OCLC
    50696429
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