Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Era
What happens when higher education is reorganized around market value rather than its wider civic purpose?
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Using Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Era by Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux as our lens, this episode investigates the university as both an educational institution and a potential democratic public sphere.
Writing in the post-9/11 United States, Giroux and Giroux argue that higher education should do more than prepare students for…
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