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Politics after hope, Barack Obama and the crisis of youth, race, and democracy, Henry A. Giroux

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Politics after hope, Barack Obama and the crisis of youth, race, and democracy, Henry A. Giroux
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Politics after hope
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Henry A. Giroux
Series statement
The radical imagination series
Sub title
Barack Obama and the crisis of youth, race, and democracy
Table Of Contents
Introduction : Barack Obama and the "fierce urgency of now" -- 1. War talk, the death of the social, and disappearing children : a lesson for Obama -- 2. Hard lessons : neoliberalism, education, and the politics of disposability -- 3. Commodifying kids : the forgotten crisis -- 4. Disney, casino capitalism, and the stealing of childhood innocence -- 5. Ten years after Columbine : the deepening tragedy of youth -- 6. Child beauty pageants : a scene from the "other America" -- 7. Youth and the myth of a postracial society under Barack Obama -- 8. Diposable youth in a suspect society : a challenge for the Obama administration -- 9. Locked out and locked up : youth missing in action from Obama's stimulus plan -- 10. Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the new racism : getting beyond the politics of denial -- 11. Children of the recession : remembering Manchild in the promised land12. Beyond bailouts : education after neoliberalism (coauthored with Susan Searls Giroux) -- 13. Educating Obama : a task for critical pedagogy -- 14. Beyond the audacity of hope : the promise of an educated citizenry -- 15. The Iranian uprisings and the challenge of the new media : rethinking the politics of representation -- 16. Obama's tortured democracy : the power of images and the politics of state secrecy -- 17. Obama and the promise of education -- 18. Obama's embrace of the corporate model of education (coauthored with Kenneth Saltman) -- 19. Against the militarized academy -- 20. Higher education in search of democracy? -- 21. Obama's postpartisan politics and the crisis of American education -- 22. Educating the rest of us : making democracy matter
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