Recognition of cultural identity has replaced economic redistribution in market multiculturalism

Evidence

This is a kind of multiculturalism, it is said, that has no problem accommodating neoliberal demands and in which race—along with other identitarian categories such as gender and sexual orientation—has taken the place of redistribution in a kind of marketplace of recognition. In addition, with the continued exotic predilection for marketable ethnic products, cultural difference itself takes on an increased value, and the best kind of multicultural subject is then one who can enter this market as a free and full participant. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharp tool: ‘marketplace of recognition’ — race and identity displace redistribution, and the ideal subject is one who can trade cultural difference as a market asset.
• SEED: Angles for the reader’s work: which of Hamid or Naqvi’s Muslim protagonists can or cannot enter this market of recognition — and who pays for their entry.
• XREF: connects to: Globalization’s homogenization destroys cultural meaning, making diversity preservation a recognition claim — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 299; Multiculturalism emerged as minority groups’ demand for public recognition of their identities — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 867