“White Diversity”: Paradoxes of Deracializing Antidiscrimination

• Main Author: Milena Doytcheva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
• Series: Social Sciences
• Subjects: diversity; superdiversity; multiculture; critical diversity studies; racism; discrimination
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/4/50

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.