Politics after hope: Barack Obama and the crisis of youth, race, and democracy

Introduction : Barack Obama and the "fierce urgency of now"

1. War talk, the death of the social, and disappearing children : a lesson for Obama

2. Hard lessons : neoliberalism, education, and the politics of disposability

3. Commodifying kids : the forgotten crisis

4. Disney, casino capitalism, and the stealing of childhood innocence

5. Ten years after Columbine : the deepening tragedy of youth

6. Child beauty pageants : a scene from the "other America"

7. Youth and the myth of a postracial society under Barack Obama

8. Diposable youth in a suspect society : a challenge for the Obama administration

9. Locked out and locked up : youth missing in action from Obama's stimulus plan

10. Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the new racism : getting beyond the politics ofdenial

11. Children of the recession : remembering Manchild in the promised land.

12. Beyond bailouts : education after neoliberalism (coauthored with Susan Searls Giroux)

13. Educating Obama : a task for critical pedagogy

14. Beyond the audacity of hope : the promise of an educated citizenry

15. The Iranian uprisings and the challenge of the new media : rethinking the politics of representation

16. Obama's tortured democracy : the power of images and the politics of state secrecy

17. Obama and the promise of education

18. Obama's embrace of the corporate model of education (coauthored with Kenneth Saltman)

19. Against the militarized academy

20. Higher education in search of democracy?

21. Obama's postpartisan politics and the crisis of American education

22. Educating the rest of us : making democracy matter