Cover -- America on the Edge -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Henry Giroux on Critical Pedagogy and the Responsibilities of the Public Intellectual -- Part I America Under Siege -- 2 The Conservative Assault on America -- 3 Democracy and the Crisis of Public Education -- 4 From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib -- Part II Against Fundamentalism -- 5 Rapture Politics and the Passion of the Religious Right -- 6 Academic Entrepreneurs -- Part III Media Pedagogy -- 7 Roll Over George Orwell -- 8 Breaking Into the Movies -- 9 Nymphet Fantasies -- Part IV Race, Surveillance, and Social, Justice -- 10 Racial Politics, Individualism, and the Collapse of the Social -- 11 Disposable Youth, Racism, and the Politics of Zero Tolerance -- Part V Militarization, Masculinity, and the Spectre of Fascism -- 12 Waging War on Democracy -- 13 Private Satisfactions and Public Disorder -- Part VI Youth, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Hope -- 14 The Abandoned Generation -- 15 Putting Youth Back into Politics -- 16 Translating the Future -- Index. |