White But Not Quite: Central Europe’S Illiberal Revolt - 9781529213607

Since the 'migration crisis' of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its 'new' Eastern members - Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary - have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area's brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s. Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards 'Eastern Europeans' are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite.

• | Author: Ivan Kalmar
• | Publisher: Bristol University Press
• | Publication Date: May 17, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 334 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1529213606
• | ISBN-13: 9781529213607