Unit 4
Multiculturalism & racism
Laura Laubeova
laubeova@fsv.cuni.cz
http://minorities.fsv.cuni.cz/
Unit Structure
• Presentation on Rex by Julia
• Multiculturalsim – cont.
• Homework 2 - Vocabulary of Discrimination
Multiculturalism
• Descriptive
• Normative- see bellow
• Government policy
(Canada, Australia)
• Institutional policies
(UK – racial equality, CERES)
Multiculturalism – cont.
• Conservative (diversity as a deficit, communit.)
• Left essentialist (Afrocentrism, also comm.)
• Liberal (natural equality, lack of opportunities,
decontextualisation, depolitisation)
but procedural liberalism vs communitarian liber. –
Kis, Taylor, Kymlicka (see also politics of recognition)
• Pluralist - salad bowl (exoticism, affirmation) vs
melting pot
Multiculturalism – cont.
• Critical MC (Frankfurt School, power,
emancipation, soc. justice, self reflection)
• Antiracist (life chances - CERES)
• Reflexive (Ali Ratansi – Derrida + Giddens)
• Cosmopolitan
• Ethnicity as habitus (Bourdieu)
• Hybridity (H. Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, St. Hall)
rooting vs shifting
(see S. May, P. McLaren, etc)
QUIZ
Just one question to torture your
memory…
Referring to the reader
what is the difference
between multicultural and
plural societies?
Furnivall in all three texts
MC- Context
V. Parrillo: three models of minority integration:
• Assimilation (majority- comformity)
• Amalgamation (melting pot)
• Accommodation (pluralism) (multiculturalism)
Multiculturalism = diversity + cooperation
Parrillo, 1997
Assimilation
• cultural (acculturation)
• marital
• structural (entrance into host society at
all levels)
Milton Gordon in Parrillo, 1997
• Voluntary vs forced
• assimilation trap, double bind (Baubeck)
Melting Pot (MP) Theory
1782 de Crevecoeur: „new breed of humanity“
1893 Fred. Turner- frontier thesis „…merging…
new product which held the promise of world
brotherhood“
1952 triple melting pot: Protestant, Catholic,
Jewish
Etc.
MP = Anglocomformity (Parrillo 1997: 59)
Multiculturalism – cont.
Eva Sobotka: policies twds the Roma in CEE:
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Exclusion
Assimilation
Co-existence
Multiculturalism
Sobotka 2003
Multicultural Policy target
groups/requirements
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Indigenous (Nunavat, Sami)
National minorities (Canada, Europe)
Legal immigrants (USA, Australia)
Irregular & illegal immigrants – denizens/metics
AfroAmericans
Roma, Ch. Jews, Amish, etc
See Unit 3
Kymlicka –
stages: communitarian, liberal, nation building
Multiculturalism – cont.
Integration, inclusion, inclusive education
Intercultural vs multiculrural
Politics
of redistribution,
of recognition (Frazer) –
• politics of equal dignity (Autonomy) &
• politics of difference (Authenticity) (Taylor)