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The Freedom to Be Racist?

How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism

By: Erik Bleich

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The Freedom to Be Racist?

How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism

By: Erik Bleich

The Freedom to be Racist? focuses on the tension between combating racism and protecting freedom of speech.

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The Freedom to Be Racist?

How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism

By: Erik Bleich

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The Freedom to Be Racist?

How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism

By: Erik Bleich

We love freedom. We hate racism. But what do we do when these values collide? In this wide-ranging book, Erik Bleich explores policies that the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other liberal democracies have implemented when forced to choose between preserving freedom and combating racism. Bleich's comparative historical approach reveals that while most countries have increased restrictions on racist speech, groups and actions since the end of World War II, this trend has resembled a slow creep more than a slippery slope. Each country has struggled to achieve a balance between protecting freedom and reducing racism, and the outcomes have been starkly different across time and place. Building on these observations, Bleich argues that we should pay close attention to the specific context and to the likely effects of any policy we implement, and that any response should be proportionate to the level of harm the racism inflicts. Ultimately, the best way for societies to preserve freedom while fighting racism is through processes of public deliberation that involve citizens in decisions that impact the core values of liberal democracies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199876452

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Race Politics in Britain and France

Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s

By: Erik Bleich

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Race Politics in Britain and France

Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s

By: Erik Bleich

Britain and France have developed substantially different policies to manage racial tensions since the 1960s, in spite of having similar numbers of post-war ethnic minority immigrants. This book provides the first detailed historical exploration of race policy development in these two countries. In this path-breaking work, Bleich argues against common wisdom that attributes policy outcomes to the role of powerful interest groups or to the constraints of existing institutions, instead emphasizing the importance of frames as widely-held ideas that propelled policymaking in different directions. British policymakers' framing of race and racism principally in North American terms of color discrimination encouraged them to import many policies from across the Atlantic. For decades after WWII, by contrast, French policy leaders framed racism in terms influenced largely by their Vichy past, which encouraged policies designed primarily to counter hate speech while avoiding the recognition of race found across the English Channel.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107320216

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9781107320215

Covering Muslims

American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective

By: Erik Bleich,A. Maurits van der Veen

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Covering Muslims

American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective

By: Erik Bleich,A. Maurits van der Veen

For decades, scholars and observers have criticized negative media portrayals of Muslims and Islam. Yet most of these critiques are limited by their focus on one specific location, a limited time period, or a single outlet. This book offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of American newspaper coverage of Muslims through comparisons across groups, time, countries, and topics. It demonstrates conclusively that coverage of Muslims is strikingly negative by every comparative measure examined. Muslim articles are negative relative to those touching on Catholics, Jews, or Hindus, and to those mentioning marginalized groups within the United States as diverse as African Americans, Latinos, Mormons, and atheists. Coverage of Muslims has also been consistently and enduringly negative across the two-decade period between 1996 and 2016. This pattern is not unique to the United States; it also holds in countries such as Britain, Canada, and Australia, although less so in the Global South. Moreover, the strong negativity in the articles is not simply a function of stories about foreign conflict zones or radical Islamist violence, even though it is true that terrorism and extremism have become more prominent themes since 9/11. Strikingly, even articles about mundane topics tend to be negative. The findings suggest that American newspapers may, however inadvertently, contribute to reinforcing boundaries that generate Islamophobic attitudes. To overcome these drawbacks, journalists and citizens can consciously "tone-check" the media to limit the stigmatizing effect of negative coverage so commonly associated with Muslims and Islam"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197611710

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Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism

The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century

By: Lars Erik Berntzen

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Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism

The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century

By: Lars Erik Berntzen

This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe, North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards. Driven by terror attacks and other moral shocks, the anti-Islamic cause has undergone four waves of transnational expansion in the period since 2001. The leaders and intellectuals involved have varied backgrounds, many coming from the left, uniting historically opposed sets of values under their banner of a civilizational struggle against Islam. The findings presented in this book indicate that anti-Islamic initiatives in Western Europe and the United States form a transnational movement and subculture characterized by a fragile balance between liberal and authoritarian values. The author draws on a broad array of data sources and methods, including network analysis and sentiment analysis, to analyze the impact of the anti-Islamic expansion and turn at a macro level, and the theoretical implications for our understanding of the current far right flowing from this. Offering an overview of anti-Islamic activism, the book explores the background of their leaders and ideologues, provides an in-depth look at their ideology, online organizational networks, and the views expressed by their online members as well as which emotions and messages continue to drive their mobilization. The book will be of interest to scholars in the social movement field as well as political scientists, sociologists, and general readers interested in issues such as populism, extremism and understanding the ways in which the contemporary far right challenges liberal democracies.

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Routledge

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1000707962

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The Political Economy of European Integration

Theory and Analysis

By: Erik Jones,Amy Verdun

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The Political Economy of European Integration

Theory and Analysis

By: Erik Jones,Amy Verdun

This book provides a balanced introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration, demonstrating both the importance and the potential of research in this area. The volume includes three types of chapters: broad literature reviews, narrower applications of existing arguments, and new syntheses of competing claims. The authors also present a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration, and examine issues such as citizens' attitudes, perceptions and preferences of actors, the role of non-state actors, principle-agent questions, and the role and the autonomy of European institutions. This empirically informed and methodologically rigorous volume will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of comparative political economy, EU studies, international political economy and international organizations.

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1134297254

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Open Source Jihad

Problematizing the Academic Discourse on Islamic Terrorism in Contemporary Europe

By: Per-Erik Nilsson

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Open Source Jihad

Problematizing the Academic Discourse on Islamic Terrorism in Contemporary Europe

By: Per-Erik Nilsson

In Open Source Jihad, Per-Erik Nilsson provides a unique overview of the academic research and political legislation concerning 'Islamic terrorism' in Europe. He scrutinises in detail how the concepts 'terrorism', 'radicalisation', and 'counter-terrorism' have developed as academic objects of study and political objects of governance. In the Element, Nilsson brings to the fore systemic problems of the field of terrorism studies as well as the various anti-terrorist apparatuses developed by EU member states. Open Source Jihad should be required reading for anyone interested in current European political and social events.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108638082

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Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

By: Erik Butler

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Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

By: Erik Butler

For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler holds a PhD from Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College. His publications include The Bellum Gramaticale and the Rise of European Literature (2010) and a translation with commentary of Regrowth (Vidervuks) by the Soviet Jewish author Der Nister (2011).

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Camden House

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1571134328

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9781571134325

Covering Muslims

American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective

By: Erik Bleich,A. Maurits van der Veen

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Covering Muslims

American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective

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Race Politics in Britain and France

Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s

By: Erik Bleich

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Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s

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Ideas and Policymaking Since the 1960s

By: Erik Bleich

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Ideas and Policymaking Since the 1960s

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Book's by Erik Bleich

The Freedom to Be Racist?

The Freedom to Be Racist?

The Freedom to Be Racist?

The Freedom to Be Racist?

Race Politics in Britain and France

Race Politics in Britain and France

Covering Muslims

Covering Muslims

Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism

Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism

The Political Economy of European Integration

The Political Economy of European Integration

Open Source Jihad

Open Source Jihad

Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

Covering Muslims

Covering Muslims

Race Politics in Britain and France

Race Politics in Britain and France

Race Politics in Britain and France

Race Politics in Britain and France

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