Lawrence Eppard, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University.Henry A. Giroux, PhD, is Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

• Introduction 1. Introduction: Expanding the Meaning of FreedomLawrence M. Eppard and Henry A. Giroux2. Freedom has been WeaponizedRaoul Martinez3. Structural Violence and Structural AwarenessBandy Lee PART I: COVID-19, Inequality, and Freedom 4. Normalizing Inequality in the Age of COVID-19Henry Giroux5. A Tale of Two Pandemics: Freedom and Environmental Justice in a Time of COVID 19Michael Mascarenhas6. We Can See Clearly Now: Inequality and the Covid-19 PandemicMichael Yates PART II: Poverty, Economic Inequality, and Freedom 7. Inequality, Violence, and FreedomMartin Daly and D.B. Krupp8. A Structural Vulnerability Understanding of American PovertyMark Rank9. Child Poverty: Europe versus the U.S.Jonathan Bradshaw10. Poverty and FreedomDavid Brady11. Poverty, Politics, and Perspective: A View of Political Failure from AppalachiaJim White12. Identity, Meritocracy, and the Unique Challenges of Human FreedomPeter Callero PART III: Race, Gender, Sexualities, and Freedom 13. White Privileges and Black BurdensJoe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey14. The Paradox, Contradictions, Interdependencies, and Stark Realities of Inequality and FreedomNancy DiTomaso15. Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System at the Intersection of Race and EthnicityCarlos E. Rojas-Gaona and Arelys Madero-Hernandez16. Let Me Fight Your BattleHilarie Burton Morgan17. Women in the Man-Made CityCarla Corroto18. Grinding the Gears of Ideology: Interpellation and Gender in Us Weekly and The Bell JarLuke Ferretter19. The Question of Queer and Trans Positive Freedom in the U.S.Ecem E. Ece, Robert Baez, and K. L. Broad20. Truth and Freedom: The Debate over Unauthorized Immigrants and CrimeAlex Nowrasteh, Andrew C. Forrester, and Michelangelo Landgrave PART IV: Freedom in Other Domains 21. Grievance Media: How Two Sets of 'News' Hampers DemocracyAlison Dagnes22. Social Media and the Collapse of American Public LifeYevgeny Simkin23. Disability, Ableism and the Production of InequalityAllison Carey24. The Obsolescence of Freedom? Inequality, Symbolic Violence and the Ongoing Dilemma of American EducationDan Schubert and Elizabeth C. Lewis25. Constituting, Empowering, and Stratifying Individuals: Education as an Institution in Modern World CultureDavid Monaghan26. Environmental Justice: The Struggle ContinuesRobert Cavazos PART V: Parting Thoughts 27. Social Welfare, Democratic Citizenship, and FreedomDeondra Rose28. On Government, Agency, and the Violence of InactionLawrence Eppard with Noam Chomsky

Lawrence Eppard, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University.Henry A. Giroux, PhD, is Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

• Introduction 1. Introduction: Expanding the Meaning of FreedomLawrence M. Eppard and Henry A. Giroux2. Freedom has been WeaponizedRaoul Martinez3. Structural Violence and Structural AwarenessBandy Lee PART I: COVID-19, Inequality, and Freedom 4. Normalizing Inequality in the Age of COVID-19Henry Giroux5. A Tale of Two Pandemics: Freedom and Environmental Justice in a Time of COVID 19Michael Mascarenhas6. We Can See Clearly Now: Inequality and the Covid-19 PandemicMichael Yates PART II: Poverty, Economic Inequality, and Freedom 7. Inequality, Violence, and FreedomMartin Daly and D.B. Krupp8. A Structural Vulnerability Understanding of American PovertyMark Rank9. Child Poverty: Europe versus the U.S.Jonathan Bradshaw10. Poverty and FreedomDavid Brady11. Poverty, Politics, and Perspective: A View of Political Failure from AppalachiaJim White12. Identity, Meritocracy, and the Unique Challenges of Human FreedomPeter Callero PART III: Race, Gender, Sexualities, and Freedom 13. White Privileges and Black BurdensJoe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey14. The Paradox, Contradictions, Interdependencies, and Stark Realities of Inequality and FreedomNancy DiTomaso15. Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System at the Intersection of Race and EthnicityCarlos E. Rojas-Gaona and Arelys Madero-Hernandez16. Let Me Fight Your BattleHilarie Burton Morgan17. Women in the Man-Made CityCarla Corroto18. Grinding the Gears of Ideology: Interpellation and Gender in Us Weekly and The Bell JarLuke Ferretter19. The Question of Queer and Trans Positive Freedom in the U.S.Ecem E. Ece, Robert Baez, and K. L. Broad20. Truth and Freedom: The Debate over Unauthorized Immigrants and CrimeAlex Nowrasteh, Andrew C. Forrester, and Michelangelo Landgrave PART IV: Freedom in Other Domains 21. Grievance Media: How Two Sets of 'News' Hampers DemocracyAlison Dagnes22. Social Media and the Collapse of American Public LifeYevgeny Simkin23. Disability, Ableism and the Production of InequalityAllison Carey24. The Obsolescence of Freedom? Inequality, Symbolic Violence and the Ongoing Dilemma of American EducationDan Schubert and Elizabeth C. Lewis25. Constituting, Empowering, and Stratifying Individuals: Education as an Institution in Modern World CultureDavid Monaghan26. Environmental Justice: The Struggle ContinuesRobert Cavazos PART V: Parting Thoughts 27. Social Welfare, Democratic Citizenship, and FreedomDeondra Rose28. On Government, Agency, and the Violence of InactionLawrence Eppard with Noam Chomsky