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1. Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

   By Henry A. Giroux

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Border Crossings

   Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education, 2nd Edition

   By Henry A. Giroux, Henry A. Giroux

   The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural...

   Published May 7th 2005 by Routledge
3. Impure Acts

   The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies

   By Henry A. Giroux

   Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire....

   Published June 12th 2000 by Routledge
4. Education and Cultural Studies

   Toward a Performative Practice

   Edited by Henry A. Giroux, Patrick Shannon

   Published September 17th 1997 by Routledge
5. Counternarratives

   Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

   By Henry A. Giroux, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren, Michael Peters

   To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern...

   Published November 6th 1996 by Routledge
6. Fugitive Cultures

   Race, Violence, and Youth

   By Henry A. Giroux

   Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its political and pedagogical value as a site of...

   Published April 15th 1996 by Routledge
7. Disturbing Pleasures

   Learning Popular Culture

   By Henry A. Giroux

   In Disturbing Pleasures Henry Giroux demonstrates how his well-known theories of education, critical pedagogy and popular culture can be put to use in the classroom and in other cultural settings. Adding an entirely new dimension to his thinking about the cultural sites at which pedagogical...

   Published March 29th 1994 by Routledge
8. Between Borders

   Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies

   Edited by Henry A. Giroux, Peter McLaren

   Informed by the belief that critical pedagogy must move beyond the classroom if it is to be truly effective, this essay collection makes clear how cultural practices--as portrayed in film, sports, and in the classroom itself--enable cultural studies to deepen its own political possibilities and to...

   Published September 8th 1993 by Routledge
9. Education Under Siege

   The Conservative, Liberal and Radical Debate over Schooling

   By Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A. Giroux

   Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack, in the USA and in other industrialized countries....

   Published October 7th 1987 by Routledge