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A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.

Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?

The culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege.

Malik interweaves this history of ideas with a parallel narrative: the story of the modern West's long, failed struggle to escape ideas of race, leaving us with a world riven by identity politics. Through these accounts, he challenges received wisdom, revealing the forgotten history of a racialised workin

Not So Black and White

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      Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
      Published 10 October 2024
      ISBN-13 9781805260097
      978-1805260097
      ISBN-10 180526009X
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      Non Fiction Politics, Philosophy & Society Social theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.

      Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?

      The culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege.

      Malik interweaves this history of ideas with a parallel narrative: the story of the modern West's long, failed struggle to escape ideas of race, leaving us with a world riven by identity politics. Through these accounts, he challenges received wisdom, revealing the forgotten history of a racialised workin

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