Henry Giroux Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of temporality of dead time, zones of abandonment and terminal exclusion marked by a loss of faith in progress and a belief in those apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure.

  Henry Giroux

  Loss, Insecure, Time Zones

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals, educators, youth and other concerned citizens can play in fostering a reawakening of America's battered public memories.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of downward mobility, but also the fact that youth live in a commercially carpet-bombed and commodified environment that is unlike anything experienced by those of previous generations. Nothing has prepared this generation for the inhospitable and savage new world of commodification, privatization, joblessness, frustrated hopes and stillborn projects.

  Henry Giroux

  Fate, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not only negates the established order but imagines a new one, one informed by a radical vision in which the future does not imitate the present.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Vision, Doe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of $23,000 in student loan debt, and they are the ones saddled with it. Youth have become indentured servants and that turns them away from public service.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Home, Average

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

• With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Play, Roles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black Lives Matter movement. We see it among black youth who are now struggling and trying to make connections internationally with other groups and trying to figure out what's going on in the world and the ways things like police violence and systemic violence all come together under neoliberalism.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s.

  Henry Giroux

  Black Youth, Challenges, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it. They are calling for a redistribution of wealth and power - not within the old system, but in a new one in which democracy becomes more than a slogan or a legitimation for authoritarianism and state violence.

  Henry Giroux

  Artist, Order, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

  Henry Giroux

  Dream, Youth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a historically specific neoliberal project that promotes vast inequalities in income and wealth, creates the student-loan-debt bomb, eliminates much-needed social programs, eviscerates the social wage, and privileges profits and commodities over people.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Historical, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

  Henry Giroux

  Becoming, Youth, Nightmare

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Within the United States especially, the often violent response to nonviolent forms of youth protests must be analyzed within the framework of a mammoth military-industrial state and its commitment to war and the militarization of the entire society.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Commitment

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

  Henry Giroux

  Narrative, Youth, Trouble

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, there is also the emergence of a punishing state, a governing through crime youth complex, and the emergence of the school-to-prison pipeline as the new face of Jim Crow.

  Henry Giroux

  Children, School, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement.

  Henry Giroux

  Generations, Way, Youth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

  Henry Giroux

  School, White, Minorities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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