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Author Giroux, Henry A.

Title Channel surfing : racism, the media, and the destruction of today's youth / Henry A. Giroux.

Imprint New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.235 G445c 1998    ---  Available
Edition 1st St. Martin's paperback ed.
Description 248 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-244) and index.
Contents 1. Fashion, demonization, and youth culture. Something comes between kids and their Calvins : youthful bodies and commercialized pleasures -- Hollywood and the demonization of youth : beating up on kids -- Bashing the sixties : public memory and the lost hope of youth. 2. Race, media, and whiteness. White noise : racial politics and the pedagogy of whiteness -- In living color : Black, bruised, and read all over -- Playing the race card : media politics and the O.J. Simpson verdict -- Race talk and the crisis of democratic vision / (with Susan Searls).
Subject Youth.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Racism.
Popular culture.
Added Title Racism, the media, and the destruction of today's youth
ISBN 0312214448 (pbk.)

 
    
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