Multiculturalism and racism can coexist within the same national moment.

Evidence

In the end, his analysis was sensitive to both the positive and negative factors in play, noting the coincidence of the well-publicized and widely supported fiftieth anniversary celebrations, in 1998, of the arrival of the Windrush and the damning report chaired by Sir William Macpherson into the 1993 murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence by white racists. Their crimes had met with the collusion of what Macpherson, in his report, described as an “institutionally racist” police force, demonstrating that it was still “perfectly possible for multiculturalism and racism to coexist.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 157

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘institutionally racist’ via Macpherson’s report as collusion by state institutions with racist crimes.
• XREF: Core for the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit: institutional racism as a mechanism that operates alongside official multicultural celebration. — connects to: Cross-racial amity can coexist with everyday racism without negating it. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 59
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how ‘institutional racism’ as a concept migrated from the Macpherson report into Islamophobia discourse.