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

Book Overview

Higher education is under siege. No longer viewed as a public good, it is attacked by businesses who want to refashion institutions in the image of the marketplace. Higher education is the target of cultural conservatives who have undermined academic freedom and access by deriding the academy as a hotbed of left-multicultural-radicalism and anti-Americanism. The historic mission to educate students as citizens motivated by democratic values is overshadowed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403972907
• ISBN13: 9781403972903
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 8.3"