1990s corporate diversity celebrated differences without dismantling Eurocentric norms

Evidence

The United States was maybe a multicultural nation in homes, behind closed doors, but certainly not in public in 1997. Racists in the United States were only embracing diversity and multiculturalism in name. In practice, they were enforcing cultural standards. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1165

Categorization

• SEED: Angles for an essay on performative diversity: how institutions adopt multicultural language while preserving single-culture gatekeeping.
• XREF: connects to: Textbook portrayals of minorities were historically biased, stereotypical, and Eurocentric — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1105