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The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Crises of MulticulturalismThis 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 rejection of lived multiculture.
Full description- Publisher: ZED BOOKS LTD
- Published: 15 July 2011
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Society & Culture: General | Social Discrimination | Social Groups | Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies | Sociology
- ISBN 13: 9781848135819 ISBN 10: 1848135815
- Sales rank: 83,960
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Full description for The Crises of Multiculturalism
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, mediaeval 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 rejection of lived multiculture. In documenting mainstream racism and the anxieties that inform it, Lentin and Titley argue that the crisis is a projection of neoliberal societies' disjunctures. Combining theory with a reading of contemporary events, it examines the transnational, mediated nature of crisis itself, and argues challenging this notion provides activists with a chance to transcend resurgent racism.
