Multicultural Flashcards
New white man burden
How whites combat racism without self-denial and hatred? Disown claims to whiteness and assimilate into non-European cultures?
Awareness anti-racism training: modify behaviors (work through racism and improve self). Not a transformed white identity, argued for positive aspects of whiteness but not reconstruction of cultural content
RaceTraitor.org
Advocates abolition of white race and focus on historical counter narrative of anti-racist whites
Harsher rebellion against white racial norms and solidarity
Cultural appropriation in which whites, poor or not, are enriched
White double consciousness
Losing white status results in new reactive nativist identities
Transform race narrative
Double: recognizes legacy of white’s privilege and race traitors antiracist progress
Post-multiculturalism
Combat disintegrative ethic communities, foster national identity, mandatory immigrant integration (citizenship classes, language requirements of immi. to learn host’s culture and values), celebrate cultural differences
Political participation and economic opportunities, human rights and freedom, common national identities, over cultural identities
Multiculturalism as Citizenisation
Multiculturalism-human rights revolution against racial hierarchies. Combat inequality but not cultural practices. New relationships for minorities and majority. Immigrants are not well-treat because they are burden to welfare state. However, multiculturalism can alleviate formation of underclass.
Citizenisation-hierarchical relations into relationship relations that vary depend groups’ histories
Preconditions of multicultural citizenship
Desecuritisation of state-minority relations: Islamic nations, China
Human rights: Minority self-government must respect same indi. rights as majority. Multicultural won’t work for extreme oppression
Benign Multiculturalism(Pluralism)
Tailored to be compatible with more universal values of America
Americans can avoid choosing btw loyalty to nation and ethnic group
White vanguardism
White solves racism (privilege and supremacy?).
