Henry Giroux Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Differences, Community

• I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Issues, Identity Politics

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

• What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously, enormously, in an enormously important way.

  Henry Giroux

  Important, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, America, Black

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies and identities of young people as part of the reconfiguration of the social state into the punishing state.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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