Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Front Cover
Macmillan, Jun 24, 2004 - Education - 324 pages
At the beginning for the new millennium, higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, higher education increasingly is besieged by corporate, right-wing and conservative ideologies that want to decouple higher education from its legacy of educating students to be critical and autonomous citizens, imbued with democratic and public values. The greatest danger faced by higher education comes from the focus of global neo-liberalism and the return of educational apartheid. Through the power of racial backlash, the war on youth, deregulation, commercialism, and privatization, neo-liberalism wages a vicious assault on all of those public spheres and goods not controlled by the logic of market relations and profit margins. Take Back Higher Education argues that if higher education is going to meet the challenges of a democratic future, it will have to confront neo-liberalism, racism, and the shredding of the social contract.
 

Contents

The Post911 University and the Project of Democracy
15
Academic Culture Intellectual Courage and the Crisis
53
Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy
89
Race Rhetoric and the Contest over Civic Education
129
Black Educational
169
Youth Higher Education and the Breaking
217
Higher Education
249
Notes
287
Index
317
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2004)

Henry A. Giroux is the well-known author of numerous books and articles on society, education, and political culture. He is Waterbury Chair of Education at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information