The Crises of Multiculturalism
by The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age
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. In beautifully belligerent writing, this unique and important new book forcefully challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by refuting the existence of a coherent era of ‘multiculturalism’ in the first place.After an inspiring foreword by Guardian-journalist Gary Younge, 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 show that the crisis is a projection of neoliberal societies’ disjunctures. This book combine
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Parallel Lives: Round Table
Three speakers addressing the Challenging Parallel Lives Conference. Debbie Phillips (Leeds and Oxford Universities) will focus on how questions about community cohesion have become intertwined with a racialised political discourse on urban segregation and integration. Shamser Sinha (CoConvenor…
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Parallel Lives Conference: Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy on 'Race Politics and the retreat from rationality. In the age of 'evidence based policy development' why would our leaders choose to set the evidence base on Parallel Lives aside?' Paul Gilroy is the first holder of the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory. His intellectual...
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Parallel Lives Conference: Ludi Simpson
Ludi Simpson on'Sleepwalking to Segregation'? How do claims of white flight, growing segregation and dangerous segregation persist despite evidence to the contrary? What are the consequences? Ludi Simpson and Nissa Finney are the co-authors of 'Sleepwalking to segregation'? Challenging myths…
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Parallel Lives Conference: Robert Moore
Robert Moore introduces the "Challenging the Parallel Lives Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics" conference held at the London School of Economics on May 13th 2009. The conference was co-orgamised by the British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the British...
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The Comforts of crisis: Recited Multiculturalism in Western Europe
Gavan Titley, giving a seminar at the Sussex centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex on March 12 2009 on "The Comforts of crisis: Recited Multiculturalism in Western Europe." This paper is part of a wider project on Questioning theEuropean 'Crisis of Multiculturalism':...
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Les Back on Questioning the European ‘Crisis of Multiculturalism’
Listen to Les Back’s keynote address at the Questioning the European ‘Crisis of Multiculturalism’ colloquium. It is preceded by a short introduction by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin.
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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. In beautifully belligerent writing, this unique and important new book forcefully challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by refuting the existence of a coherent era of ‘multiculturalism’ in the first place.After an inspiring foreword by Guardian-journalist Gary Younge, 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 show that the crisis is a projection of neoliberal societies’ disjunctures. This book combine
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