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Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Far Right
by Liz Fekete
(Verso, £14.99)
IN EUROPE'S Fault Lines, Liz Fekete has not only written an excellent study of how racism is once again being normalised but how, in turn, it is acting as cloak under which fascism is resurgent.
There can't be many with the same level of expertise Fekete has on this issue. Director of the Institute of Race Relations, where she's worked for three decades, she's head of its European research programme and her extensive knowledge and informed insights on this growing threat demand close attention.
More aware than most of the criticisms that will be levelled at this work, Fekete has been very careful to clarify every term and phrase from the outset.
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