Racism and 'free speech' / Anshuman A. Mondal.
| Author/creator | Mondal, Anshuman A., 1972- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | 239 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | What can you say? -- Are you kidding me? -- What the hell is going on? -- Part one: Opening -- Part two: '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 -- On tolerance -- Cancel Culture -- Part three: 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' -- Coconuts -- On statues, memorials and monuments -- The paradox of (counter-)hegemony -- Part four: Shapes -- A one-dimensional freedom -- Discursive liquidity: the shaping of discourse -- The case against no platforming is not an open and shut one -- Safe spaces -- On harassment and bullying -- Paul Gilroy in Finsbury Park -- Part five : Closing -- Some final thoughts on liberalism and anti-racism. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Mondal, Anshuman A. (Anshuman Ahmed), 1972- Racism and 'free speech' London ; New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781350470545 |
| LCCN | 2024029045 |
| ISBN | 9781350470538 |
| ISBN | 9781350470521 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 135047052X |
| ISBN | 1350470538 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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