1. Against multiculturalism 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2002
   Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
   
2. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
3. The dirty d-word
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Diversity has become more than simply a way of describing the expansion of our experiences. It has also become a dogma about how we should live that has become as stultifying as old-fashioned racism - and often as divisive.
   
4. The Great Turning
   From Empire to Earth Community
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   
5. How 'diversity' breeds division
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2004
   Diversity training is supposed to help 'promote good relations' between different ethnic groups and capitalise on workforce diversity. However, there is warranted scepticism about whether such training alleviates tensions or exacerbates them. Much of the content of this training is overreliant on pop sociology and pseudo-therapeutic techniques. Participants are expected to talk about stereotypes they harbour deep in their subconscious, and disclose feelings of harassment and victimisation. Trainers claim to eliminate stereotypes in the workplace, yet in talking about 'different cultural perspectives' they end up generating new and more insidious stereotypes in their stead.
6. Inclusion or exclusion 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2008
   People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
   
7. Mistaken Identity
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2008
   Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
8. Nature of Economies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
   
9. The new language of diversity
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
10. The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
    
11. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
12. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
13. The Real Value of Diversity 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
14. Selling Illusions
    The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
    Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
15. Strange Fruit 
    Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
16. Their Multiculturalism and Ours
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Reactionary interpretations of multiculturalism ignore, tolerate or excuse prejudice and abuse in the name of pluralism and diversity. They foster social division, moral confusion and double-standards – often to the detriment of the most vulnerable: minorities within minority communities. Progressive multiculturalism is about respecting and celebrating difference, but within a framework of universal equality and human rights. It is premised on welcoming and embracing cultural diversity, providing it does not involve the oppression of other people.
17. Transforming Power
    From the Personal to the Political
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
18. Why We Can Change the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2000
    Many good people support the "diversity" concept, because they see it as a way of building unity and respect for each other across cultural divides. But diversity is about "celebrating and respecting our differences." Despite many people's best intentions, it's not really about finding what we have in common, but about focusing on differences as if these supposed differences are what define us as human beings. Diversity as a framework, as a way of thinking about each other, will always stand in the way of the goal that most of us share, of multi-racial, multi-ethnic unity. Diversity in fact is no different from the basic capitalist view that society consists of various groups competing for their own interests. Such a view does not present any threat to capitalism or to inequality but reinforces it.

Experts on Diversity in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Connexions Library
3. Family Service Toronto
4. International Forum on Globalization
5. KPMG Management Services LP
6. Linden-Museum Stuttgart
7. Town of Markham
8. Natural History Museum
9. ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
10. Radical Digressions
11. Shanghai Cooperation Organization
12. Speakers Gold