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 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.
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