Corporate multiculturalism can function as appeasement for the marginalized

Evidence

In the worst cases, though, multiculturalism has served as a form of appeasement for those increasingly left behind as well as convenient public relations and advertising modalities for corporate interests. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 108

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on diversity-washing and corporate social responsibility as reputational cover while material conditions worsen. — connects to: Corporations are reframed as a disenfranchised minority deserving rights — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 336