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“The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...”

Henry Giroux

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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

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As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

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What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal…

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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…

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At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues…

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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…

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All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people…

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The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense…

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History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

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I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

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Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

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The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American…

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