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Series

Debating Race series

David Theo Goldberg, Are we all postracial yet?

Ghassan Hage, Is racism an environmental threat?

Jonathan Marks, Is science racist?

Laurie Cooper Stoll, Should schools be colorblind?

Gavan Titley, Is free speech racist?

Alford A. Young, Jr., Are Black men doomed?

Is free speech racist?

GAVAN TITLEY

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Dedication

For Jonas-Liam Titley

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

At Polity thanks to Jonathan Skerrett for his thoughtful and incisive editing, and to Karina Jákupsdóttir for her patience and advice. Thanks also to the manuscript reviewers for hugely useful feedback. The issues brought together in this short book are expansive and complex, and so the advice of friends on how best to approach them is more than usually appreciated. I’m grateful to Mohammed Abdi, Colm O’Cinneide, Michael Cronin, Léo Custódio, Alana Lentin and Evan Smith for clarifying conversations, and David Hesmondhalgh, Nick Riemer, Lisa Tilley and Sivamohan Valluvan for their insightful commentary on various drafts. This book is dedicated to Jonas-Liam Titley, who helped me think through many of these arguments.