{"product_id":"decolonize-multiculturalism-9781682193532","title":"Decolonize Multiculturalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word \"multiculturalism\" can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But \u003cem\u003eDecolonize Multiculturalism\u003c\/em\u003e unearths a buried history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on the student and youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by global movements for decolonization and anti-racism, which aimed to fundamentally transform their society, as well as the fierce repression of these movements by the state, corporations, and university administrations. Part of the response has been sheer violence-campus policing, for example, only began in the '70s, paving the way for the militarized campuses of today--with institutionalized multiculturalism acting like the velvet glove around the iron fist of state violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet today's multiculturalism also contains residues of the original radical demands of the student and youth movements that it aims to repress: to open up the university, to wrench it from its settler colonial, white supremacist, and patriarchal capitalist origins, and to transform it into a place of radical democratic possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony C. Alessandrini\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and public educator based in New York. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics\u003c\/em\u003e; the editor of \u003cem\u003eFrantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives\u003c\/em\u003e; and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003e\"Resistance Everywhere\" The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also published a poetry chapbook, \u003cem\u003eChildren Imitating Cormorants\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches English at Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. He is also on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a Co-Editor of \u003cem\u003eJadaliyya\u003c\/em\u003e, a Co-Convener of the International Solidarity Action Research Network (ISARN), and an active member of the Palestine solidarity movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBhakti Shringarpure\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, academic and founding editor of \u003cem\u003eWarscapes\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital\u003c\/em\u003e and a regular contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAfrica is a Country\u003c\/em\u003e. She currently runs the Radical Books Collective which pushes for an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50653817405714,"sku":"9781682193532","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d72b9b35-f6b4-42d7-b290-351abc221f77.jpg?v=1733365734","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/decolonize-multiculturalism-9781682193532","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}