Henry Giroux

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole…

— Henry Giroux

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

— Henry Giroux

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American…

— Henry Giroux

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

— Henry Giroux

“It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.”

— Henry Giroux

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new…

— Henry Giroux

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities…

— Henry Giroux

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it…

— Henry Giroux

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact…

— Henry Giroux

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding…

— Henry Giroux

The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students…

— Henry Giroux

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the…

— Henry Giroux

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ…

— Henry Giroux

Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or…

— Henry Giroux

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— Henry Giroux

The environment in Canada is much more conducive to doing critical work, though Canada has its own set of problems, but nothing…

— Henry Giroux

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics…

— Henry Giroux

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree…

— Henry Giroux

The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social…

— Henry Giroux

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is…

— Henry Giroux

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.

— Henry Giroux

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

— Henry Giroux

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

— Henry Giroux

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

— Henry Giroux

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

— Henry Giroux

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

— Henry Giroux

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

— Henry Giroux

I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are…

— Henry Giroux

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests…

— Henry Giroux

Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about…

— Henry Giroux

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant…

— Henry Giroux

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can…

— Henry Giroux

The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative…

— Henry Giroux