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Summary of Adam Serwer's The Cruelty Is the Point
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ISBN: 1638156239 Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : IRB,

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Get the Summary of Adam Serwer's The Cruelty Is the Point in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Like many of us, Adam Serwer didn't know that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. But over the four years that followed, the Atlantic staff writer became one of our most astute analysts of the Trump presidency and the volatile powers it harnessed. The shock that greeted Trump's victory, and the subsequent cruelty of his presidency, represented a failure to confront elements of the American past long thought vanquished. In this searing collection, Serwer chronicles the Trump administration not as an aberration but as an outgrowth of the inequalities the United States was founded on. Serwer is less interested in the presidential spectacle than in the ideological and structural currents behind Trump's rise - including a media that was often blindsided by the ugly realities of what the administration represented and how it came to be.


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Le multiculturalisme comme religion politique
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ISBN: 9782204110914 2204110914 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Editions du Cerf,

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Le multiculturalisme serait l'alpha et l'oméga de la démocratie, le seul visage possible de la modernité. Mais comment en sommes-nous arrivés là ? Comment des intellectuels ont imposé à la France et aux nations occidentales la notion d"< identités particulières", et comment lui ont-ils retiré celle d'"identité commune" ? Qu'est-ce qui se cache derrière le culte de la diversité ? Pour Mathieu Bock-Côté, mai 1968 marque le début d'une révolution inventée par une gauche métamorphosée. Constatant l'effondrement du marxisme, elle a fondé l'égalitarisme identitaire. Critique de l'Occident, déconstruction des traditions, invention de l'antiracisme, telles ont été les étapes d'un redoutable projet : la confiscation de la démocratie par une minorité. S'inspirant des oeuvres des plus grands penseurs de la modernité, de Tocqueville à Muray, en passant par Marcel Gauchet, Raymond Aron ou encore Jean-Pierre Le Goff, revenant sur cinquante ans de vie intellectuelle, de la faillite du communisme à la création de la contre-culture, en passant par l'avènement du droit de l'hommisme et de l'idéologie antidiscriminatoire, Mathieu Bock-Côté propose le décryptage lucide et sévère d'un autoritarisme qui ne dit pas son nom.


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Europe's fault lines : racism and the rise of the right
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ISBN: 9781784787226 9781784787233 9781784787257 9781784787240 178478723X 1784787221 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Verso

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"It is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone's minds is: how did this happen? An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly-configured right interconnects with anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, Europe's Fault Lines provides much-needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths. What appear to be "blind spots" about far-right extremism on the part of the state, are shown to constitute collusion-as police, intelligence agencies and the military embark on practices of covert policing that bring them into direct or indirect contact with the far right, in ways that bring to mind the darkest days of Europe's authoritarian past. Old racisms may be structured deep in European thought, but they have been revitalized and spun in new ways: the war on terror, the cultural revolution from the right, and the migration-linked demonization of the destitute "scrounger." Drawing on her work for the Institute of Race Relations over thirty years, Liz Fekete exposes the fundamental fault lines of racism and authoritarianism in contemporary Europe." -- Book jacket.


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De la démocratie raciale au multiculturalisme : Brésil, Amériques, Europe
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ISBN: 9789052015590 9052015597 Year: 2009 Volume: 1 Publisher: Bruxelles: Peter Lang,

The politics of multiculturalism in the new Europe : racism, identity and community
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ISBN: 1856494225 1856494217 9781856494229 9781856494212 Year: 1997 Volume: *2 Publisher: London New York : Zed books,

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Europe has become a novel experiment in multiple, tiered and mediated multiculturalisms. It is now a supranational community of cultures, sub-cultures and trans-cultures inserted differentially into radically different political cultural traditions. The consequences of this re-imagining and re-making of a new Europe are variously seen to be threatening or utopian. In a post-Communist, post-national era, multiculturalism has been theorized as a paternalistic, top-down solution to the & problem of minorities, a dangerous reification of & culture', or a new way forward to a politics of & recognition and & authenticity'. But is multiculturalism simply a novel project of social engineering, devised for the twenty-first century by well-meaning liberals or communitarians? The authors of this book reject this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political outcome of ongoing power struggles and collective negotiations of cultural, ethnic and racial differences.


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Culling the Masses
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ISBN: 0674369661 0674729048 9780674729049 067436967X 9780674369665 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Culling the Masses questions the widely held view that in the long run democracy and racism cannot coexist. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín show that democracies were the first countries in the Americas to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states the first to outlaw discrimination. Through analysis of legal records from twenty-two countries between 1790 and 2010, the authors present a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere. The United States led the way in using legal means to exclude "inferior" ethnic groups. Starting in 1790, Congress began passing nationality and immigration laws that prevented Africans and Asians from becoming citizens, on the grounds that they were inherently incapable of self-government. Similar policies were soon adopted by the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire, eventually spreading across Latin America as well. Undemocratic regimes in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Cuba reversed their discriminatory laws in the 1930s and 1940s, decades ahead of the United States and Canada. The conventional claim that racism and democracy are antithetical--because democracy depends on ideals of equality and fairness, which are incompatible with the notion of racial inferiority--cannot explain why liberal democracies were leaders in promoting racist policies and laggards in eliminating them. Ultimately, the authors argue, the changed racial geopolitics of World War II and the Cold War was necessary to convince North American countries to reform their immigration and citizenship laws.


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Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race
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ISBN: 9781408870556 9781408870587 9781408870570 140887055X 9781408870563 1408870568 1408870576 1408870584 9781526633927 1526633922 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDhttps://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587


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Not even past : Barack Obama and the burden of race
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ISBN: 9781400834198 1400834198 9780691137308 0691137307 1282569295 9786612569296 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, "ed William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. Obama's journey to the White House undoubtedly marks a watershed in the history of race in America. Yet even in what is being hailed as the post-civil rights era, racial divisions--particularly between blacks and whites--remain deeply entrenched in American life. Sugrue traces Obama's evolving understanding of race and racial inequality throughout his career, from his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, to his time as an attorney and scholar, to his spectacular rise to power as a charismatic and savvy politician, to his dramatic presidential campaign. Sugrue looks at Obama's place in the contested history of the civil rights struggle; his views about the root causes of black poverty in America; and the incredible challenges confronting his historic presidency. Does Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? In Not Even Past, a leading historian of civil rights, race, and urban America offers a revealing and unflinchingly honest assessment of the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.


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The twenty-first century and its discontents : how changing discourse norms are changing culture
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ISBN: 9781793607997 1793607990 9781793608017 1793608016 1793608008 Year: 2020 Publisher: Lanham: Lexington,

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"Philosophers and political theorists tackle the question of cultural transformation in the twenty-first century and the role discourse norms play in producing cancel culture, a counter-sexual revolution, racism and a toxic politics that has left the nation feeling vulnerable and angry"--

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