The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and
frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation
that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in
relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has become so
central to intense disputes about the status and remit of freedom
of speech. Is Free Speech Racist? moves away from recurring debates
about the limits of speech to instead examine how the principle of
free speech is marshalled in today's multicultural and intensively
mediated societies. This involves tracing the ways in which free
speech has been mobilized in far-right politics, in the recycling
of 'race realism' and other discredited forms of knowledge, and in
the politics of immigration and integration. Where there is intense
political contestation and public confusion as to what constitutes
racism and who gets to define it, 'free speech' has been adopted as
a primary mechanism for amplifying and re-animating racist ideas
and racializing claims. As such, contemporary free speech discourse
reveals much about the ongoing life of race and racism in
contemporary society.
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