{"product_id":"the-crises-of-multiculturalism-racism-in-a-neoliberal-age-9781848135819","title":"The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides a rich and scholarly analysis of the multiple forces at play in the construction of the \"death of multiculturalism\" as a flexible and potent political discourse. Incisive and provocative in it's analysis; it is uncomfortable reading for those on both the left and right in politics. This is necessary reading for anyone concerned with the complex masking of racism within the rhetorical dance of national identities and globalized neo-liberal ideologies. * Charles Husband, Centre for Applied Social Research, University of Bradford *\u003cbr\u003eThe Crises of Multiculturalism critically examines the entanglements inherent in the broad range of European multiculturalisms today, their \"loud\" rejection and yet a melancholic neediness expressed in their bemoaning. The analysis is especially incisive about the ways in which an \"era of integration,\" as multiculturalism's contemporary expression, seeks insecurely to assert authoritative control and security in the face of threatening and fearful expressions of a burgeoning multiculture supposedly marking European nations. The authors reveal how the politics of multiculturalism continue to structure, reproduce, and render less visible contemporary racisms.Those concerned to understand the synchrony of multiculturalism, integration, and revitalized racisms across the European landscape would do well to consult this book. * David Theo Goldberg, University of California *\u003cbr\u003eNeoliberalism is deeply connected to racism: austerity, exclusion, the restriction of rights and withdrawal of freedoms -- hallmarks of both these despotic phenomena -- all mark their congruence and indeed interdependence. But in Europe and elsewhere as well the new racist regime has employed the seemingly benign and tolerant trope of multiculturalism to mask its malevolence. Lentin and Titley's fierce critique of this strategy provides a much-needed critical analysis of multiculturalism's ineffectuality in opposing the racism rising in Europe today. This book points out how racism cannot be understood as a matter of cultural difference. This book exposes the repressive assumptions that shape the politics of multiculturalism and that place the burden of inclusion on those seen as \"different\" and \"other,\" rather than on the regimes of privilege and hierarchy that target immigrants, Muslims, and blacks in their effort to maintain a white \"fortress Europe.\" The smiling rhetoric of tolerance, we learn here, is still produced by sharp white teeth. Highly recommended! * Howard Winant, UC Santa Barbara, Director, University of California Center for New Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003eAlana Lentin and Gavan Titley offer a powerful and persuasive account of how multiculturalism has been sentenced to death. Drawing on a vast array of sources, voices and examples, they show how laments on the failure of multiculturalism create a political and affective landscape in which racism is simultaneously repudiated and reproduced. A necessary and important book. * Sara Ahmed, Professor of Race and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, by Gary Younge    Introduction and Acknowledgments    Part I: Recited Truths: the Contours of Multicultural Crisis    1. The New Certainties    2. Recited Truths    3. The Comforts of Crisis    4. The Recited Truths of (British) Multiculturalism: a Rough Guide    5. Species of Blowback    6. The Long Unsettled Settlement     Part II: Let's Talk About Your Culture: Post-Race, Post-Racism    7. Introduction: 'Race is Irrelevant, But All Is Race'    8. Reflections on Reflections: Can Europe be Racialized with Cultural People in it?    9. The Apparatus of Race    10. No Race, No Power, New Problems    11. An Era of Post-Racialism    12. The Ascent of Culture    13. The Fault-Lines of Postracialism     Part III: Free Like Me: the Polyphony of Liberal Postracialism    14. From Evil to Relativism    15. In the Mirror, Through the Looking Glass    16. Liberal Populism, and Populist Liberalism    17. Europe's Prime Multicultural Experiment    18. The New Realism    19. Liberal Populism, and Populist Liberalism    20. The Polyphony of  'Identity Liberalism'     Part IV: Mediating the Crisis: Circuits of Belief    21. Mediated Minarets    22. From Integration Debates to Integration Events    23. The Diminishing Returns of Honesty and Openness    24. Genres of Event    25. Something Rotten, etc, etc    26. Recited Truths, Circuits of Belief    27. Petri-Dish Cities    28. Coda: On Critics     Part V: Good and Bad Diversity: the Shape of Neoliberal Racisms    29. Introduction: Pragmatic, Elastic, Ubiquitous    30. Analysing Contamination    31. Racy: Racial Neoliberalism and the Privatization of Race    32. Privatizing Racism    33. The Promise, and Problem of Diversity    34. Love Diversity, Hate Racism    35. Diversity Politics, and the Politics of Diversity    36. Conclusion: the Burka as Bad Diversity and Governmental Event     Part VI: On One More Condition: the Politics of Integration Today    37. Introduction    38. The Rise of Domopolitics    39. Integrating the Sexual Nation    40. Not Free Enough: Sexual Repression as a Barrier to Integration    References and Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771601748311,"sku":"9781848135819","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781848135819.jpg?v=1758728465","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-crises-of-multiculturalism-racism-in-a-neoliberal-age-9781848135819","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}