Across the world, we see attacks on education systems from right wing nationalist leaders and parties, and new education systems put into place that rewrite history to extol the dominant majority. It is no different in the United States, where book bans and attacks on minority perspectives are advanced under the banner of “parental control.” By placing these attacks in transnational and historical perspective, I will argue that they are in fact fascist frontal assaults on democracy.

This talk is sponsored by Dr. Henry Giroux and the McMaster Center for Scholarship in the Public Interest.