Gavan Titley is a media sociologist and cultural theorist. He is a Lecturer in Media in the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the co-author of The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Crises of MulticulturalismIronically, working through the idiom of multicultural failure is a form of political correctness; a way of talking about issues of migration, identity, power, belonging, legitimacy and socio-political anxiety while steering clear of a lexicon associated with the overt history of a shameful, racist past. However, it has also become a discourse that launders racism.