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![Black man facing light from New York buildings, fire escapes](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/06/shutterstock_1086868223mn-400x300.jpg)
Children of the Recession: Remembering “Manchild in the Promised Land”
The hybridized concept of "manchild" marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.
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Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part I)
Those who are yet to become engaged with the work of Henry Giroux are missing out - big time.
![Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor testifies during her nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, July 13, 2009.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/06/shutterstock_61982716-400x300.jpg)
Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial
The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial.
![Child beauty pageant tiara](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/05/shutterstock_218315221c-400x300.jpg)
Child Beauty Pageants: A Scene From the “Other America”
The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.
![Students from William R. Harper High School in Chicago, Illinois, listen as President Barack Obama talks with them about the Emancipation Proclamation hanging in the Oval Office, June 5, 2013.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/04/9317456208_5412037b70_k-400x300.jpg)
Youth and the Myth of a Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama
While "post-racial" may mean less overt racism, the idea that we have moved into a post-racial period in American history is an act of willful denial and ignorance.
![Statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/04/7927566712_def0b67f77_o-e1529596534199-400x300.jpg)
Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence
The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.
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Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
The current crisis offers an opportunity to question the ways in which children's culture has been corrupted by rampant commercialization, commodification and consumption.
![Youth's hand grasping fence](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/02/shutterstock_1075721525-400x300.jpg)
Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama’s Stimulus Plan
Young people in the US face a fragile quality of life.
![President George W. Bush makes a statement at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2007.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2009/01/2019_0319-george-w-bush-400x300.jpg)
The Greatest Greatness of George W. Bush
George W. Bush's greatness will be defined by how we rise to overcome and undo what he has done.
![President Barack Obama meets with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sept. 15, 2011.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2008/12/6218344149_199aee5463_o-400x300.jpg)
Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism
How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?