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Addressing ethnic cleansing, culture wars, human sufferings, terrorism, immigration, and intensified xenophobia, ""The Globalization of Racism"" explains why it is vital that we gain a nuanced understanding of how ideology underlies all social, cultural, and political discourse and racist actions. The book looks at recent developments in France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United States and uses examples from the mass media, popular culture, and politics to address the challenges these and other countries face in their democratic institutions. The eminent authors of this important book show how we can educate for critical citizenry in the ever-increasing multicultural and multiracial world of the twenty-first century. Contributors are: David Theo Goldberg, Loic Wacquant, Edward W. Said, Zygmunt Bauman, Peter Mayo and Carmel Borg, Anna Aluffi Pentini and Walter Lorenz, Peter Gstettner, Georgios Tsiakalos, Franz Hamburger, Julio Vargas, Lena de Botton and Ramon Flecha, Concetta Sirna, Jan Fiola, Joao Paraskeva, Henry A. Giroux. It explores new forms of racism in the era of globalization.

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This compelling book pulls together an incisive political analysis of the resurgence of racism in the context of capitalist consolidation. By revealing global linkages among local manifestations of racism, the authors of this volume underscore the urgency of global organizing on behalf of justice. --Christine Sleeter, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, California State University, Monterey Bay

This compelling book pulls together an incisive political analysis of the resurgence of racism in the context of capitalist consolidation. By revealing global linkages among local manifestations of racism, the authors of this volume underscore the urgency of global organizing on behalf of justice. --Christine Sleeter, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, California State University, Monterey Bay

This compelling book pulls together an incisive political analysis of the resurgence of racism in the context of capitalist consolidation. By revealing global linkages among local manifestations of racism, the authors of this volume underscore the urgency of global organizing on behalf of justice. --Christine Sleeter, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, California State University, Monterey Bay

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Donaldo Macedo, Panayota Gounari

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