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Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth Book

The two sections of Channel Surfing, dealing respectively with youth culture and racial politics, may not appear to have much in common with each other at first. But Henry A. Giroux has an underlying class critique that binds them together. Young people are being barraged, he argues, by consumer culture messages that consistently identify them as alienated outcasts. They are also being assaulted by racial messages "targeting black youth as criminals while convincing working-class white youth that blacks and immigrants are responsible for the poverty, despair, and violence that have become a growing part of everyday life in American society." Although the balance between academic jargon and pop culture is somewhat precarious, Giroux's thesis is packed with the consideration of detail that marks useful cultural criticism.Read More

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    A child wears a sexual pout in an ad for jeans. A rock star's suicide is held aloft as the archetypal example of teen alienation. From today's barrage of media images, Henry Giroux sees a message that damns our children to the preconceived role of alienated outcast. CHANNEL SURFING is sure to create controversy as it calls for a more ethical attitude toward our children's future.

  • 0312214448
  • 9780312214449
  • Henry A. Giroux
  • 15 September 1998
  • St. Martin's Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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