Henry Giroux

McMaster University, English and Cultural Studies, Faculty Member

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Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Professorship in Critical Pedagogy. He also holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s Key Guides Publication Series. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the “12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think.” He is a frequent contributor to Truthout, CounterPunch, LA Progressive, and other online journals. He has published over 400 scholarly articles. His most recent books include: Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014) a Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge 2015) and coauthored with Brad Evans, Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle (City Lights, 2015)

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From the Introduction of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights 2018

The metaphor of an American nightmare provides us with a rhetorical space where a kind of double ... more The metaphor of an American nightmare provides us with a rhetorical space where a kind of double consciousness, based in both resistance and hope, can emerge. This is a consciousness that identifies and rejects structures of domination and repression. It is an expression of what Vaclav Havel once called "the power of the powerlessness," but it also gestures beyond this, to what the poet Claudia Rankine calls a new understanding of community, politics, and engaged collective resistance in which a radical notion of the social contract is revived. This is a critical consciousness in which individuals and groups allow themselves to embrace the condition of exile-with its underlying message of being flawed-in solidarity with their brothers and sisters who are targeted because of their politics, gender, religion, residency status, race, sexual preference, and country of origin. She writes of exile as an opportunity to address the resentment and retribution that have historically underlain denials of our common humanity. For Rankine, being "flawed differently" offers a metaphor for embracing our differences. It offers diversity as a strength in our collective resistance against the pre-fascist "America First" script in which whiteness is sustained as the dominating feature of a violent society that has descended directly from genocidal settler-colonialism.

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