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University of Minnesota
March 2005
272 pages
ISBN: 0816644888
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Non-Fiction
If, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, the problem of the
twentieth century was the problem of the color line, the
problem of the twenty-first century may be one that reaches
back to premodernity: religious identity. Even before 9/11
it was becoming evident that Muslims, not blacks, were
perceived as the "other" most threatening to Western
society, even in a relatively pluralist nation such as
Britain. In Multcultural Politics, one of the most
respected thinkers on ethnic minority experience in England
describes how what began as a black-white division has been
complicated by cultural racism, Islamophobia, and a
challenge to secular modernity. Tariq Modood explores the
tensions that have risen among advocates of
multiculturalism as Muslims assert themselves to catch up
with existing equality agendas while challenging some of
the secularist, liberal, and feminist assumptions of
multiculturalists. If an Islam-West divide is to be avoided
in our time, Modood suggests, then Britain, with its
relatively successful ethnic pluralism and its easygoing
attitude toward religion, will provide a particularly
revealing case and promising site for understanding.
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