Thursday 12 January 2012

Racism in a post-racial Europe

an article by Alana Lentin published by Eurozine

Summary

The discrediting of the category of race in post-war European societies did not abolish racism: officially endorsed cultural relativism perpetuated Eurocentricism while dismissing racism as the pathology of the individual. Critique of culturalism is, however, to be distinguished from the new wave of anti-multiculturalism, argues Alana Lentin. Ostensibly aimed at the illiberalism of multiculturalism's “beneficiaries”, the latter expresses intolerance of “bad diversity”.

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