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Since the advent of multiculturalism in the 1970s, the redefinition of race in cultural terms has gone hand in hand with an official discourse of respect for cultural difference and diversity. Today, in the wake of 9/11, the rhetoric of tolerance is visibly breaking down. As state policy shifts from the celebration of difference to an anxious call for assimilation, the racial other (whether citizen or immigrant) is under renewed pressure to integrate herself into society.

In this issue of Mute, contributors read the crisis of multiculturalism – political, scientific and social – as both a neoliberal offensive and a challenge to rethink the relationship between particular identities and universal rights, evolutionary science and biopower.

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Texts by: George Caffentzis, Matthew Hyland, Daniel Jewesbury, Marek Kohn, Eric Krebbers, Hari Kunzru, Melancholic Troglodytes, Angela Mitropoulos, Luciana Parisi, Benedict Seymour

Contents of this cluster

1. Your Country Needs You (To Be Other)
2. The Values on the Ground: Multiculturalism and the War on Terror
3. Disrespecting Multifundamentalism
4. Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire
5. Proud Scum – The Spectre of The Ingrate
6. Dividing the species: Race, Science and Culture
7. Show Some Disrespect!
8. Acts of God and Enclosures in New Orleans
9. Free Speech as Shibboleth: on the Danish Cartoons
10. The Netherlands: from Multiculturalism to Forced Integration
11. Photography project to accompany Mute Vol 2 #2 - Dis-integrating Multiculturalism