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“White Diversity”: Paradoxes of Deracializing Antidiscrimination

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  • Milena Doytcheva

    (Department of Philosophy, University of Lille, 59000 Lille, France
    Institut Convergences MIGRATIONS, Collège de France-CNRS, 75016 Paris, France)

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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.

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  • Milena Doytcheva, 2020. "“White Diversity”: Paradoxes of Deracializing Antidiscrimination," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-20, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:9:y:2020:i:4:p:50-:d:345020
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