Racialized exclusion blocks everyone from defining a more inclusive Britishness

Evidence

For racialized disadvantage and exclusion block the access of everyone, including “minorities” of all kinds, to the process of defining a more inclusive “Britishness” with which, only then, might everyone be legitimately invited to identify. This constitutes the democratic or cosmopolitan limit on both liberal and communitarian alternatives. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘democratic or cosmopolitan limit’ that closes off both liberal and communitarian multiculturalisms.
• XREF: The ‘Britishness’ contestation anticipates Hall’s later work on the ‘multicultural question’ and connects forward to debates about Muslim identity in Britain’s Islamophobia literature. — connects to: British racism forecloses full naturalization even for assimilated nonwhite writers — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 540