1. THE POST 9/11 WEST AND THE
CRISES OF MULTICULTURALISM
DR ALANA LENTIN, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

2. THE CRISES OF
WITH GAVAN TITLEY, ZED BOOKS 2011

3. OVERVIEW

4. OVERVIEW
Post‐9/11 consensus around civilizational threat
legitimizes the new ‘cultural racism’.

5. OVERVIEW
Post‐9/11 consensus around civilizational threat
legitimizes the new ‘cultural racism’.
‘Home‐grown’ terrorism points the finger at
‘excessive western tolerance’, ‘state doctrine of
multiculturalism’ (Cameron, Merkel...)

6. OVERVIEW
Post‐9/11 consensus around civilizational threat
legitimizes the new ‘cultural racism’.
‘Home‐grown’ terrorism points the finger at
‘excessive western tolerance’, ‘state doctrine of
multiculturalism’ (Cameron, Merkel...)
The ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ is the contemporary
articulation of racism.

7. BACKGROUND

8. TOO DIVERSE: THE REAL
PROBLEM WITH
Entropa Installation: The Netherlands is seen as
series of minarets submerged by a flood

9. TOO DIVERSE: THE REAL
PROBLEM WITH
“Nas @43 where have I
mentioned the word
‘genetics’ or the word
‘race’? My problem is
with Somali culture not
Somali genes.”
CAULDRON — Entropa Installation: The Netherlands is seen as
series of minarets submerged by a flood
ON 21ST AUGUST, 2009
AT 11:41 AM
WWW.PICKLEDPOLITICS.CO

10. GOOD & BAD

11. GOOD & BAD
“In the European shift to the
privatization of race, the shifting border
between good diversity, requiring
celebration and cultivation, and bad
diversity, diverse matter recognized as
of out place, is central to understanding
a particularly influential inflection of
antiracialism. How can there be racism
when the official commitment to
diversity is so manifest, and so
mediated?”
The Crises of Multiculturalism
(Lentin and Titley)

13. ‘Europeans know more about Arabic calligraphy and kente cloth because they know less about
Montaigne and Goethe. If the spread of Pakistani cuisine is the single greatest improvement in
British public life over the past half‐century, it is also worth noting that the bombs used for the
failed London transport attacks of July 21, 2005, were made from a mix of hydrogen peroxide
and chapatti flour. Immigration is not enhancing or validating European culture; it is
supplanting it’ Christopher Caldwell 2009: 17

14. BATTLEGROUND:

15. BATTLEGROUND:
“White Men Saving Brown
Women from Brown Men”
GAYATRI SPIVAK, CAN THE
SUBALTERN SPEAK?

16. CONCLUSION
In memory of Baha Mousa (1977-2003)

17. CONCLUSION
“Why is a book that makes you
ashamed for its author, even
occasionally ashamed to be reading it,
still worth reading? Because for all its
bigotry and paranoia, all of its ill‐
informed dismissal of Islamic history
and culture, “The Rage and the Pride” is
a bracing response to the moral
equivocation, the multi‐culti political
correctness, the minimization and
denial of the danger of Islamo‐fascism In memory of Baha Mousa (1977-2003)
that dogs the response to Sept. 11 and
to the ongoing war on terrorism.”
CHARLES TAYLOR ON ORIANNA