Conflating biological and cultural-inferiority discourses defines the multicultural moment.

Evidence

Of course, the actual histories of racialized and ethnicized closure are very different in different places (e.g., the US and the UK), emerge at different moments and in different forms, and have very different political and social effects. They should not be homogenized. However, the conflation of biological and culturally inferiorizing discourses seems to be a defining characteristic of “the multi-cultural moment.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 344

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth pressing: what does ‘the multi-cultural moment’ name exactly, and how does the conflation of the two racisms distinguish it from earlier moments? Could sharpen the periodization this vocabulary depends on.