“White Diversity”: Paradoxes of Deracializing Antidiscrimination

Milena Doytcheva
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Milena Doytcheva: Department of Philosophy, University of Lille, 59000 Lille, France

Social Sciences, 2020, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-20

Abstract: This article questions, at its starting point, the theoretical and epistemic assumptions around the emergence of the concept of (super)diversity, hailed in a growing body of academic literature as marking a “diversity turn”. In the second part, it highlights the issues raised by the organizational applications of the diversity paradigm in three main policy domains: migration, urban planning, and antidiscrimination. Finally, emphasizing the development of white-centered diversity conceptions, particularly in the European and French contexts, it invites a closer look at the intertwining of scholarly and practical elaborations of the diversity frame by considering knowledge as practice.

Keywords: diversity; superdiversity; multiculture; critical diversity studies; racism; discrimination; diversity policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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