'The West' has a unique civilization, a powerful 'front' -
modernity, liberty, democracy, affluence. This volume offers
critical perspectives from both 'inside' and 'outside' the cultural
and intellectual frontiers of the Western project.
The primary focus is on analysing racism and changing ethnicities
in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global
dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of neo-Fascism, and
a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity. The chapters
assess the value of Marxist perspectives and newer approaches that
take 'modernity' and 'postmodernity' as frameworks for analysis.
They also explore how European identities have been continually
reconstructed by a cultural repression of the 'non-Western',
whether through colonial discourses, the denial of Asian, Islamic,
Judaic and African influences or the effects of Eurocentric
conceptions of subjectivity in the psychiatric disciplining of
ethnic minorities.
The chapters are written by some of the most original and
influential writers in the field: they include Michel Wieviorka,
Howard Winant, Robert Miles, Robert Young, Jan Nederveen Pieterse,
Sallie Westwood, Ali Rattansi and Cathie Lloyd.
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