"The End of Diversity"

Kamryn M

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This factsheet is a distillation of Rinaldo Walcott’s piece The End of Diversity, which argues that the commonly used language of diversity is unhelpful in pursuing societal transformation and structural justice. Instead, Walcott proposes a more radical approach that includes the disruption of white supremacy.

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