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Crises of Multiculture in Berlin
The Crises of Multiculture? (Zed Boks 2011) which I am co-writing with Gavan Titley will be prresented at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin on July 15 with a response by award-winning journalist, Gary Younge.
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. Muslims have been the chief beneficiary of this discredited epoch; licensed by its delusions, they have been left unsupervised, and the proliferation of ghettos, extremism and illiberal excesses is the troubling result. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m Back!
Sorry for the silence on this site due to the birth of my daughter Noam on 27 November 2009. After a heady 4 months I am back to work.
From April to July 2010, I am on study leave from Sussex and shall be a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. If you are in Germany, please check back here soon for details of seminars and conferences I will be giving during this time in both Berlin and Bremen. I shall also be giving a seminar on 5 May 2010 at 17h00 in Paris in the seminar ‘La racialisation en question: Constructions nationales et circulations transnationales’ organised by Didier Fassin, Eric Fassin and Pap Ndiaye at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales.
During my stay in Berlin, I shall be working on a book entitled The Crises of Multiculture? which I am co-writing with Gavan Titley for Zed Books. More details of the book can soon be found on the multiculturality website.
Racism Reviewed
“Lentin’s book is not only an accessible survey of scholarly writing on the nature of racism but is also a powerful intervention in its own right.”
Arun Kundnani of the Institute of Race Relations, and author of the excellent The End of Tolerance, has written a thoughtful review of Racism: A Beginner’s Guide here.