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In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed against young people, low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, and women.

Henry Giroux

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Henry Giroux
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 18
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