Book Burning in Arizona: Disposable Knowledge and Disposable Bodies / Henry Giroux

Every once in a while, events flash before us that might, at first, seem trivial or commonplace given how in tune they are with the political and ideological temper of the times, but, in reality, they sometimes contain a hidden order of politics and flight from social and moral responsibility that convey a frightening truth about the dark authoritarian forces driving American society. Such forces are often associated with a passion against equality, driven by an appeal to nationalism and defended as an act of patriotism.  In actuality, the willingness to defend persistent and deeply rooted forms of racial, economic and social inequality is often driven by a fear of those deemed "other," whose presence, voices and ideas defy the crippling registers of intellectual conformity and forms of knowledge that merely reinforce "common sense," the status quo and right-wing populism.

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