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<p> Alana Lentin analyses the de-politicisation of racism via policies of state multiculturalism which gloss over racist premises, structures and institutions. </p>

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<p>In the West, the first years of the new millennium are being marked by a growing public preoccupation with the supposed incompatibility of diverse groups of people, at both a global and a local level.</p>
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Even the admission of institutional racism by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom following the 1997 Macpherson inquiry has primarily engendered policies of ‘inclusion’ and ‘diversification’ within institutions that fail to transform the culture of racism by which they are structured. </div>
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<p><a href="http://libcom.org/library/replacing-%E2%80%98race%E2%80%99-historicizing-%E2%80%98culture%E2%80%99-multiculturalism-alana-lentin" target="_blank">read more</a></p>