Racism Postcolonialism Europe

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Graham Huggan, Ian Law
Liverpool University Press, Jan 1, 2009 - Social Science - 213 pages
Racism Postcolonialism Europe turns the postcolonial critical gaze that had previously been most likely to train itself on regions other than Europe, and sometimes those perceived to be most culturally or geographically distant from Europe, back on Europe itself. The book argues that racism is
alive and dangerously well in Europe, and examines this racism through the lens of postcolonial criticism. Postcolonial racism can be a racism of reaction, based on the perceived threat to traditional social and cultural identities; or a racism of (false) respect, based on mainstream liberals'
desire to hold at arm's length 'different' cultures they are anxious not to offend. Most of all, postcolonial racism, at least within the contemporary European context, is a racism of surveillance, whereby 'foreigners' become 'aliens', 'protection' disguises 'preference', and 'cultural difference'
slides into 'racial stigmatization' --all in the interests of representing the European people, which is a very different entity to the European population as a whole. Boasting a broad multidisciplinary approach and a range of distinguished contributors - including Philomena Essed, Michel Wieviorka
and Griselda Pollock - Racism Postcolonialism Europe will be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, European history and literary and cultural studies.
 

Contents

thinking through the racism
17
racism and asylumseekers from a visual
77
Migration racism and postcolonial studies in Spain
92
and Turkish immigrants in European Union accession discourses
102
white paranoia and the terrors
119
Intolerable humiliations
131
racism
148
crisis or towards postrepublicanism?
165
The politics of imperial nostalgia
176
Europes racial crisis?
197
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Graham Huggan is professor of English, chair of commonwealth and postcolonial literature, and founding codirector of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds, as well as the author of numerous publications. Ian Law is the author of several works on racism, founding director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, and reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, also at the University of Leeds.

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