<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Contents -- Introduction -- Sociology of education -- Theories of reproduction and resistance in the new sociology of education : toward a critical theory of schooling and pedagogy for the opposition -- Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism -- Cultural studies and cultural politics -- Consuming social change : the "united colors of Benetton" -- Doing cultural studies : youth and the challenge of pedagogy -- The war against youth -- Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence -- Disposable youth and the politics of domestic militarization : mis/education in the age of zero tolerance -- From critical pedagogy to public pedagogy -- Is there a role for critical pedagogy in language/cultural studies? An interview with Henry A. Giroux -- Cultural studies, critical pedagogy, and the responsibility of intellectuals -- Mouse power : public pedagogy, cultural studies, and the challenge of Disney -- The politics of higher education -- Racial politics, pedagogy, and the crisis of representation in academic multiculturalism -- Youth, higher education, and the crisis of public time : educated hope and the possibility of a democratic future -- Public intellectuals and their work -- Paulo Freire and the politics of postcolonialism -- The promise of democracy and Edward Said's politics of worldliness : implications for academics as public intellectuals -- Index.