In Liberal Multiculturalism in Kosovo: The Cracks and Limits of Recognition, I investigate how liberal multiculturalism in Kosovo masquerades as a form of national inclusion, facilitating the good feelings of the country while rendering racialized violence accidental– rather than generated by it. In conversation with activists and NGO workers for minority rights in Kosovo, I argue that discourses of tolerance and political racelessness converge to posit racialized violence as merely spectacular, a state of exception, and a matter of individual prejudice that depoliticize social inequality and divert energies from political solutions. I further highlight how liberal multiculturalism, in a context of promised but withheld whiteness, produces yearning and longing as affects of belonging, and actively perpetuates Western tutelage in Kosovo. Importantly, I borrow from Critical European Studies, Balkan Studies, and Transnational Feminist and Queer Theory to examine the fissures and cracks of multicultural governmentality to render visible certain kinds of racialized violence and join the call for cross-racial alliances as opposed to consolidation with axes of privilege– however tenuous these endeavors may be.