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Decolonize Multiculturalism
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For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonisation, the word 'multiculturalism' can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalised multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signalling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history.
The book focuses on the student and youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by global movements for decolonisation and anti-racism, which aimed to fundamentally transform their society, as well as the fierce repression of these movements by the state, corporations, and university administrations. Part of the response has been sheer violenceβcampus policing, for example, only began in the '70s, paving the way for the militarised campuses of todayβwith institutionalised multiculturalism acting like the velvet glove around the iron fist of state violence.
And yet today's multiculturalism also contains residues of the original radical demands of the student and youth movements that it aims to repress: to open up the university, to wrench it from its settler colonial, white supremacist, and patriarchal capitalist origins, and to transform it into a place of radical democratic possibility.
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Decolonize Multiculturalism
For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonisation, the word 'multiculturalism' can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalised multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signalling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history. The book focuses on the student and youth...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Decolonize Multiculturalism is praised for its call to reinvigorate multiculturalism by building on the enduring impacts of decolonisation. The book's wit and imaginative prose challenge superficial implementations of multiculturalism, drawing attention to its potential to resist prevailing narratives around political correctness and social justice issues. It aims to reallocate the concept from powerful elites to a more radical, youthful movement, inviting readers to envision a transformative future.
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ISBN: 9781682193532
Publisher: OR Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 July 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: OR Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Bhakti Shringarpure
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 177.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Anthony C. Alessandriniis a writer and public educator based in New York. He is the author ofFrantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics; the editor ofFrantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives; and the co-editor of"Resistance Everywhere": The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey. He has also published a poetry chapbook,Children Imitating Cormorants. He teaches English at Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. He is also on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a Co-Editor ofJadaliyya, a Co-Convener of the International Solidarity Action Research Network (ISARN), and an active member of the Palestine solidarity movement.
Bhakti Shringarpureis a writer, academic and founding editor ofWarscapesmagazine. She is the author ofCold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digitaland a regular contributor toThe Los Angeles Review of BooksandAfrica is a Country. She currently runs theRadical Books Collectivewhich pushes for an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading.
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