"White Diversity": Paradoxes of Deracializing Antidiscrimination

Milena Doytcheva
2020 Social Sciences  
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,
more » ... ticularly 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.
doi:10.3390/socsci9040050 fatcat:5fix2gslwjepbizwbleziifyzq