The uncultured wars
Subtitle: Arabs, Muslims, and the poverty of liberal thought : new essays
By: Steven Salaita.
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781848132351; 9781848132344; 9781848132368
Subjects: Arab Americans -- Social conditions; Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions; Racism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Other titles: Arabs, Muslims, and the poverty of liberal thought
Description: This is a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Through 12 essays Steven Salaita returns again and again to his core themes of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the 'chattering classes', showing how racism continues to exist in the places where we would least expect it.