The crises of multiculturalism [electronic resource] : racism in a neoliberal age / Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley.
2011
HM1271 .L46 2011eb
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The crises of multiculturalism [electronic resource] : racism in a neoliberal age / Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley.
Author
Lentin, Alana.
ISBN
1848135815
9781848135819
1848135807
9781848135802
9781848135826 electronic book
9781848135819
1848135807
9781848135802
9781848135826 electronic book
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London ; New York : Zed Books, c2011.
Language
English
Description
ix, 285 p.
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HM1271 .L46 2011eb
Summary
"Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, medieval practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of 'multiculturalism' in the first place. The authors argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the social realities of lived multiculture. Nested in an established post-racial consensus, new forms of racism draw powerfully on liberalism and questions of 'values', and unsettle received ideas about racism and the 'far right' in Europe. In combining theory with a reading of recent controversies concerning headscarves, cartoons, minarets and burkas, Lentin and Titley trace a transnational crisis that travels and is made to travel, and where rejecting multiculturalism is central to laundering increasingly acceptable forms of racism." --Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-273) and index.
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Titley, Gavan.
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Table of Contents
Recited truths: the contours of multicultural crisis
Let's talk about your culture: post-race, post-racism
Free like me: the polyphony of liberal post-racialism
Mediating the crisis: circuits of belief
Good and bad diversity: the shape of neoliberal racisms
On one more condition: the politics of integration today.
Let's talk about your culture: post-race, post-racism
Free like me: the polyphony of liberal post-racialism
Mediating the crisis: circuits of belief
Good and bad diversity: the shape of neoliberal racisms
On one more condition: the politics of integration today.