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1. Introduction: Thought Paralysis
An anxiety and a caution
Two short stories with a moral
A culture of fear – another short story
In search of Obamaland
The celebrators of Diversity
Two caveats and their consequences
Tiptoe through the minefield of taboos
Good guys and Bad guys
Thought Impasse
Overview and Outline
2. The Struggle to live and let live: The liberal world view
The Enlightenment: Blind to difference
The Romantics: Champions of Difference
Born to be Free (sort of)
Anti Discriminatory Legislation
Privacy
Ownership
The entry of culture
Multiculturalism – a spectator sport
Anti-racism – the doer and the done-to
Psychology explaining sociology
Projection
Diversity – party time
Reprise: the two conflictual versions of liberalism
3. Equal Strokes for Different Folks: The Legislature
Different Strokes for Different Folks
Race in the Legislature
The curious case of the missing definition
How the first ‘race’ came to be created
Divide and Rule
Discrimination – without favour.
A very short history of race legislation in Britain
Brixton – The Scarman Report
Stephen Lawrence – The Macpherson Report
No Racism, No problem.
The Unconscious and Institutional Racism
Dangerous Discretion – proceduralizing decision making
The Sleeping Policemen solution.
4. Manufacturing Kinds of People: processes of inclusion and exclusion
Three Questions about the Kinds of Humans
The Problem with Race
Sociobiology
The Problem with Culture (and Ethnicity)
The illusion of unity
The Myth of consensual coherence – The Holy Cow
The myth called community
Differences in the service of differentiation.
One individual, many cultures
Cultures as discriminating moral orders
5. The Human Condition: Psychology
In the Beginning…
Desire and Duty: two readings of a conflict
The Humanistic Traditions – conflict between inside and outside
The Psychoanalytic Traditions – Internalised conflict
Social Individuals
The Paradox of Belonging
Identity
The ‘I’ and the ‘We’
Differences not all in the mind
Creating Types of People
The Othering process: dividing, forgetting, splitting
The physics of empathy and responsibility
Thinking about Thinking
6. Counting Discriminations
Every Picture Tells a Story
Statistics – the Weapon of Choice
Paradigm Shift – From Innocence to Guilt
Search and destroy missions – the general and specific duties
The Bureaucratization of Identity – counting subjectivities
Limited freedoms, constrained choices
Hawkeye – the Manipulation of Statistics
Confusions and Conflations: The Race-Ethnicity Fudge
The manufacture of objectivity out of subjectivities
Reproducing Racialized thinking
7. Corrupting the Liberal Ideal – Diversity in Organizational Life
Spreadsheet Ethics
Diversity Peddlers
Henry: New Taxonomies of human kind generated by the bottom line.
Ethnic marketing – instrumentalizing the ‘ethnics’
Recruitment & Retention –worshipping the ‘ethnics’
Thiederman: ‘Natural’ attractions and repulsions
Close encounters with diversity of the second kind
The Portrait of the Other
Making allowances
8. Perverting the liberal ideal – Fear and Control in the Panopticon
The Worker as castrated Kantian being
Equal opportunities as control mechanism
Errors and misdemeanours
9. The Difference that Dare not Speak its Name – the Lexicon Police
Training the Mind
Diversity Management as an exercise in Etiquette.
The first slip: from unfair discrimination to discrimination
Un-thinking Categories and Differentials
The nature of language
Performance vs. Practice
. Natural and Artificial Groups
. Removing vs. Transforming Words
. Names and Name calling
One Signifier and Three Significations
Life savers and coffee drinkers
. The visible made invisible
. Being offensive vs. Causing offence
. The Fallacy of the Superior Virtue of the Oppressed
Action Paralysis
10. The Vicissitudes of Discrimination
The predicament
The Equal Opportunities Interview
Quotas and Targets
Proceduralization: the erosion of responsibility
Perverting Procedures
The rationality of the emotions
Diversity as solution to the individual’s partisan mind (and heart)
Processes of Institutionalisation – the further erosion of responsibility
Now you see me, now you don’t: the vicissitudes of institutional racism
Lineage and Typology
11. Islam: The New Black
12. Tolerating Discrimination: Discriminatory Tolerance
The Politics of Tolerance
Degrees of Tolerance
The Psychology of Tolerance
Three (unhelpful) Ways of Dissolving the Tension between Authenticity and Fairness
Live and leave well alone: The Unwashed
A Corrective: From cultural difference to racism
On (Not) Tolerating the Intolerant
On (Not) Tolerating the Intolerable
Grasping the Nettle: Validity despite relativity
Engagement vs. Recognition: the exchange of ideological fluids
13. Conceptual cul-de-sacs – the road to nowhere
Celebrating Diversity – Aparthied by another Route
Culturalism: Respect no antidote to racism
Devaluing the Values of Diversity
Rationality – the villain of the piece?
Pity the Difference
In conclusion
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