Antiracist critics condemned benevolent multiculturalism as a deracialized discourse

Evidence

Such critics, notably the late Barry Troyna (1987, 1993), argued that benevolent multiculturalism constituted an irredeemably “deracialized” discourse, an approach which reified culture and cultural difference, and which failed to address adequately, if at all, material issues of racism and disadvantage, and related forms of discrimination and inequality. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 895

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of a ‘deracialized discourse’ — a multiculturalism that treats culture without race — central to the antiracist critique.