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Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain

Contributors:

By (Author) Tariq Modood
Foreword by Craig Calhoun

ISBN:

9780816644889

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Imprint:

University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date:

22nd March 2005

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

305.6970941

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

260

Dimensions:

Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 13mm

Description

If, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line, the problem of the twenty-first century may be one that reaches back to premodernity: religious identity. Even before 9/11 it was becoming evident that Muslims, not blacks, were perceived as the "other" most threatening to Western society, even in a relatively pluralist nation such as Britain. In Multcultural Politics, one of the most respected thinkers on ethnic minority experience in England describes how what began as a black-white division has been complicated by cultural racism, Islamophobia, and a challenge to secular modernity. Tariq Modood explores the tensions that have risen among advocates of multiculturalism as Muslims assert themselves to catch up with existing equality agendas while challenging some of the secularist, liberal, and feminist assumptions of multiculturalists. If an Islam-West divide is to be avoided in our time, Modood suggests, then Britain, with its relatively successful ethnic pluralism and its easygoing attitude toward religion, will provide a particularly revealing case and promising site for understanding.

Author Bio

Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics and public policy and the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is also the cofounding editor of Ethnicities.

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