Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. We Need New Stories challenges us to find new narrators whose stories can fill the void and unite us behind a shared vision. Writing with great verse, Malik also brings a clear-eyed look at the controversial terms "cancel culture" and "wokeness," delving into how they're used as rhetorical tools to defend and normalize these myths and avoid ceding space to those who are excluded from power. Interweaving memoir, reportage, and history with a sweeping narrative, Malik exposes six foundational myths-fallacies so ubiquitous that they appear natural and correct-that plague American political life, pinpoints the strategies by which they are perpetuated, and provides the impetus to identify and root them out. In this brilliant book, award-winning journals Nesrine Malik identifies the common thread that links such arguments: they are all political myths, deployed to repeal demands for social justice and frustrate movements toward equality. This refrain and its bedfellows-claims that identity politics pose a threat, warnings of an assault on free speech-have dominated, and divided, our discourse. This is a lucid reminder that the fight for equality is a battle of ideas.- 'Publishers Weekly' An acute and nuanced interrogator of contemporary prejudices, Nesrine Malik writes with immense moral courage and intellectual power.-Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger Malik invites readers to analyze the media environment and political and. Political correctness is a big problem in this country.
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