Acknowledging cultural difference can compound rather than resolve essentialism by implying boundedness

Evidence

But even this may not be enough, since the recognition and incorporation of ethnic and cultural differences, even when allied to a critique of wider power relations, and the civic realm, does not necessarily resolve or redress the problem of essentialism. Indeed, the problem may be compounded, since an emphasis on distinctive ethnic and/or cultural boundaries may lead in turn to a further (unhelpful) implication of ethnic and/or cultural houndedness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 949

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what distinguishes ‘recognition without essentialism’ from ‘recognition as re-bounding’? The passage gestures at the tension but does not resolve it.
• XREF: Relates to vault-wide debates over multicultural recognition politics and the essentialism critique of identity categories. — connects to: Cultural-difference discourse naturalizes exclusion without requiring claims of biological inferiority. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 577; Both essentialist and liberal-tolerant framings of difference reinforce Western normativity — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 79; Cultural recognition itself can trap colonized subjects inside their difference (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural recognition itself can trap colonized subjects inside their difference #exemplifies (0.90)
• Cultural-difference discourse naturalizes exclusion without requiring claims of biological inferiority. #corroborates (0.85) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 577
• Both essentialist and liberal-tolerant framings of difference reinforce Western normativity #complicates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 79