Henry Giroux Quotes
Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.
Giroux, Henry A. The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine. City Lights Books, 2014, p. 74.
The FBI was accused of tapping congressional phones and infiltrating college campuses:
At the time, Wallace and many other Southern politicians were leading efforts to undermine the new Civil Rights Laws ending legal segregation. Most Southern police forces had been major vehicles for enforcing segregation and brutally suppressing any protests or demonstrations against segregation. Law enforcement officers had been active in lynchings and murders.
While a Congressman under the Truman administration, Johnson was critical of federal measures to enforce civil rights.
Henry Armand Giroux is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. In 2002 Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period.
