![]() ![]() Gazing in this mirror involves a deliberate decision to look for insight in this place, from this object, and through a structured relation that cannot but yield polarised and polarising likenesses. We accept the arbitrary relations of what is within and without the frame. We gaze into mirrors and choose to focus on a particular object. Mirrors are not innocent metaphors, as both Lacan and Snow White would advise. In Veil: Mirror of Identity (2009), Christian Joppke examines controversies concerning the Muslim headscarf in three different countries, and posits it as a mirror of identity ‘…which forces the French, the British and the Germans to see who they are and to rethink the kinds of societies and public institutions they want to have’ (2009: x). The extract is taken from chapter 3, ‘Free like me: the polyphony of liberal post-racialism.’ This is an extract from Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley’s new book, The Crises of Multiculturalism in Europe: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, published in July 2011 by Zed Books. ![]()
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