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.
This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall
of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of
"multiculturalism" in the first place. The authors argue that what we are
witnessing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a rejection of
lived multiculture. In documenting mainstream racism and the anxieties that
inform it,