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Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.

Henry Giroux

The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of childhood into a zone of disciplinary exclusion and cruelty, especially for those young people further marginalized by race and class who now inhabit a social landscape in which they are increasingly disparaged as flawed consumers or pathologized others.

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Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequality, the suppression of dissent and the permanent war state.

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How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution of American society and its growing disinvestment in young people, the social state and democracy itself.

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The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux

Born: September 18, 1943 (age 81)

Bio: Henry Giroux is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic.

Known for:

The Mouse that Roared (1999)
Theory and resistance in education (1983)
Teachers as intellectuals (1988)

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