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Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.
Henry Giroux
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Henry Giroux
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 18
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