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.

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).

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