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Counter acts: practices of ‘anti-anti racism’ in France and the USA
Steve Garner 
Frontiers in Sociology, Volume: 9
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In various European countries, the post-fascist nationalist and populist parties identified by Ignazi in the early 1990s ‘silent counter-revolution’ now hold power, at least as part of coalitions. The values they represent can no longer be described as marginal to the national conversations on ident...
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