"Explores how the idea of 'free speech' has been central to the resurgence, rehabilitation and normalisation of racism within the mainstream politics of western liberal democracies in the last decade, and offers an alternate framework to thinking and talking about anti-racism"--
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Anshuman A. Mondal is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. His research focusses on the construction of modern social and political identities, and the cultural politics attendant upon them. His books include Nationalism and Post-colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (2003), Amitav Ghosh (2007), and Young British Muslim Voices (2008). Since 2008, he has published extensively on the politics of 'free speech' and is the author of Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie (2014).
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Acknowledgements Preface A note on form and structure 1 What can you say? 2 Are you kidding me? 3 What the hell is going on? Part 1 Opening Part 2 'Free Speech' The paradoxes of liberty The rhetorical foundations of liberalism The trope of infinite and perpetual openness On persuasion What do they know of freedom who only freedom know? The indistinction of liberty Freedom and foreclosure 4 On tolerance 5 Cancel culture Part 3 Anti-/Racism Speech/silence/ing Speech and silence: an anti-racist dialectic Racism is/not . How racism does its thing Racism is what racism does What did you say? Whiteness and the transcendental imagination Racism's gothic imaginary Why anti-racists don't need 'free speech' Empowerment, not 'freedom' 6 Coconuts 7 On statues, memorials and monuments 8 The paradox of (counter-)hegemony . Part 4 Shapes A one-dimensional freedom Discursive liquidity: the shaping of discourse 9 The case against no platforming is not an open and shut one 10 Safe spaces 11 On harassment and bullying 12 Paul Gilroy in Finsbury Park Part 5 Closing Some final thoughts on liberalism and anti-racism 216 References Index
Acknowledgements Preface A note on form and structure 1 What can you say? 2 Are you kidding me? 3 What the hell is going on? Part 1 Opening Part 2 'Free Speech' The paradoxes of liberty The rhetorical foundations of liberalism The trope of infinite and perpetual openness On persuasion What do they know of freedom who only freedom know? The indistinction of liberty Freedom and foreclosure 4 On tolerance 5 Cancel culture Part 3 Anti-/Racism Speech/silence/ing Speech and silence: an anti-racist dialectic Racism is/not . How racism does its thing Racism is what racism does What did you say? Whiteness and the transcendental imagination Racism's gothic imaginary Why anti-racists don't need 'free speech' Empowerment, not 'freedom' 6 Coconuts 7 On statues, memorials and monuments 8 The paradox of (counter-)hegemony . Part 4 Shapes A one-dimensional freedom Discursive liquidity: the shaping of discourse 9 The case against no platforming is not an open and shut one 10 Safe spaces 11 On harassment and bullying 12 Paul Gilroy in Finsbury Park Part 5 Closing Some final thoughts on liberalism and anti-racism 216 References Index
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