Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire.

Acknowledgments; Revitalizing the Culture of Politics: An Introduction; Rethinking Cultural Politics: Challenging Political Dogmatism from Right to Left; Schooling and the Politics of Corporate Culture; The Limits of Academic Multiculturalism; Teaching the Political with Homi Bhabha (Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux); Teaching the Cultural with Disney; Performing Cultural Studies; Notes; Index

recent books include: Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth (Routledge 1996), Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth (St. Martin's Press 1997), Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope (Westview/Harper Collins 1997), The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Rowman and Littlefield 1999) and Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power, and Cultural Politics (St. Martin's Press, forthcoming).