Killing Children with Impunity: From Mississippi to Gaza Journal Articles

abstract

• This article situates the recent killing of children in Gaze by Israeli forces with images of racial violence and neglect that extend from the murder of Emmett Till to the Bush government's failure to care for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The article argues that all three events are held together by racialized logic of disappearance and disposability implemented under the logic of the modern racial state. It poses the question of why the images of suffering against innocent children in Gaza have not provoked the same public outcry as did the representations that followed the Till and Katrina events.

authors

• Giroux, Henry Armand

status

• published 

publication date

• February 2009

has subject area

• 1303 Specialist Studies in Education (FoR)
• 1605 Policy and Administration (FoR)
• 1606 Political Science (FoR)

published in

• Policy Futures in Education  Journal

keywords

• 39 Education
• 3902 Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
• 3903 Education Systems
• Pediatric

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2304/pfie.2009.7.1.134

start page

• 134

end page

• 137

volume

• 7

issue

• 1