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Is Free Speech Racist?

Is Free Speech Racist?

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Publisher Wiley & Sons
Year
Pages 144
Version paperback
Language English
ISBN 9781509536160
Categories Population & demography
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The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has become so central to intense disputes about the status and remit of freedom of speech. Is Free Speech Racist? moves away from recurring debates about the limits of speech to instead examine how the principle of free speech is marshalled in today's multicultural and intensively mediated societies. This involves tracing the ways in which free speech has been mobilized in far-right politics, in the recycling of 'race realism' and other discredited forms of knowledge, and in the politics of immigration and integration. Where there is intense political contestation and public confusion as to what constitutes racism and who gets to define it, 'free speech' has been adopted as a primary mechanism for amplifying and re-animating racist ideas and racializing claims. As such, contemporary free speech discourse reveals much about the ongoing life of race and racism in contemporary society.

Is Free Speech Racist?

Table of contents

1 Debating racism, disputing speech
2 Closure: who decides what is racist?
3 Culture: who values free speech?
4 Capture: what is free speech being claimed for?
Afterword: So, is free speech racist?

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