Critical multiculturalism pairs culture critique with group-based democratic politics

Evidence

Critical multiculturalism combines both structural and culturalist concerns - linking culture to power, and multiculturalism to antiracism - in its deconstruction and critique of the organization of modern nation-states. Critical multiculturalism also engages actively with postmodernist conceptions and analyses of identity, while holding onto the possibility of an emancipatory, group-based politics. And, perhaps most importantly, critical multiculturalism provides a defensible, credible, and critical multiculturalist paradigm which can act as a template for a more plural, inclusive, and democratic approach to nation-state organization in this new century. Glazer, as much as he might not have wished it, may actually be proved right after all - it looks like multiculturalism, and its social and political consequences, are here to stay. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 953

Categorization

• DEFINE: Consolidates the four components into the ‘critical multiculturalism’ concept and names its structural-plus-culturalist core.
• XREF: connects to: Critical multiculturalism links culture to power and antiracism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 953