Politics After Hope: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race and Democracy
ISBN: 9781594518539 | 159451853X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Paradigm Pub
Pub. Date: 4/30/2010
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As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength. By focusing on those areas where Obama grounded his own sense of possibility, Giroux critically investigates the well-being and future of young people, including the necessity to overcome racial injustices, the importance of abiding by the promise of a democracy to come, and the in... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | |
| Barack Obama and the "Fierce Urgency of Now" | p. 3 |
| Youth | |
| War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama | p. 19 |
| Hard Lessons: Neoliberalism, Education, and the Politics of Disposability | p. 23 |
| Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis | p. 31 |
| Disney, Casino Capitalism, and the Stealing of Childho... MORE | p. 39 |
| Ten Years After Columbine: The Deepening Tragedy of Youth | p. 45 |
| Child Beauty Pageants: A Scene from the "Other America" | p. 55 |
| Race | |
| Youth and the Myth of a Postracial Society Under Barack Obama | p. 65 |
| Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society: A Challenge for the Obama Administration | p. 71 |
| Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action from Obama's Stimulus Plan | p. 79 |
| Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial | p. 85 |
| Children of the Recession: Remembering Manchild in the Promised Land | p. 91 |
| Democracy | |
| Beyond Bailouts: Education After Neoliberalism (coauthored with Susan Searls Giroux) | p. 99 |
| Educating Obama: A Task for Critical Pedagogy | p. 105 |
| Beyond the Audacity of Hope: The Promise of an Educated Citizenry | p. 111 |
| The Iranian Uprisings and the Challenge of the New Media: Rethinking the Politics of Representation | p. 117 |
| Obama's Tortured Democracy: The Power of Images and the Politics of State Secrecy | p. 125 |
| Education | |
| Obama and the Promise of Education | p. 135 |
| Obama's Embrace of the Corporate Model of Education (coauthored with Kenneth Saltman) | p. 137 |
| Against the Militarized Academy | p. 145 |
| Higher Education in Search of Democracy? | p. 149 |
| Obama's Postpartisan Politics and the Crisis of American Education | p. 161 |
| Educating the Rest of Us: Making Democracy Matter | p. 177 |
| Notes | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 213 |
| About the Author | p. 225 |
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Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. An internationally acclaimed cultural critic, he has published numerous books and articles. His most recent books include The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (Paradigm 2007) and Against the Terror of Neoliberalism (Paradigm 2008).
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