Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe by Alana Lentin - 9780745322209

Racism and Anti-Racism in EuropeAuthor(s): Alana Lentin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pluto Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pluto Press\nISBN-13: 9780745322209, 978-0745322209\nSynopsis\nRemarkable ... a major contribution to our understanding and handling of one of the crucial contemporary issues that acquires more gravity by the day. Zygmunt Bauman \n\nThis is an in-depth sociological study of the phenomenon of anti-racism, as both political discourse and social movement practice in western Europe.\n\nLentin develops a comparative study of anti-racism in Britain, France, Italy and Ireland. While race and racism have been submitted to many profound analyses, anti-racism has often been dealt with as either the mere opposite of racism or as a theme for prescriptives or polemics by those concerned with the persistence of racist discrimination. \n\nBy contrast, this book views anti-racism as a variety of discourses that are central to the understanding of the politics of modern states..