Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
