The Investments by Clair Berube - 9781641139908

Name: The Investments by Clair Berube - 9781641139908
Brand: Emerald Publishing Inc

Emerald Publishing Inc

The InvestmentsAn American Conspiracy\nAuthor(s): Clair Berube\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641139908, 978-1641139908\nSynopsis\nThis book examines American societal structures and institutions, beginning and ending with public education, and exposes how dysfunction and the investment in this dysfunction is an actual political agenda. The Investments focuses on the capitalization, privatization and dismantling of public education, and how other social systems such as for-profit prisons, healthcare (or the lack thereof), racism and current immigration issues, the investment in criminalizing people called the other, and the military/industrial complex are all co-dependent and symbiotic. At the Nexus of it all is American public education. An educated population threatens the status quo, so the pipeline between public education and other social institutions is real. Each has a toxic connection and.