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is the (unfortunate) tendency to use difference as a license for separatism, as opposed to critical multiculturalism which uses diversity as a basis for challenging norms and revitalizing democracy.

oppositional idenity politics . . . An oppositional version of identity politics. Distinguished from critical multiculturalism. . . . Turner distinguishes between what he calls 'difference multiculturalism' and 'critical multiculturalism.' The latter seeks to use cultural diversity as a basis for critically challenging, revising and . . relativizing basic notions and principles common to dominant and minority . . . cultures alike, so as to construct a a more vital, open and democratic common . . . culture, (ms. 5) while the former reduces culture 'to a tag for ethnic identity and a licence for political and intellectual separatism.' (ms. 6) . . . Arnold Krupat Scholarship and Native American Studies: . . . .A Response to Daniel Littlefield, Jr. . . .See 'What is Anthropology that Multiculturalist should be Mindful of It'' a talk presented to the American Anthropological Association Meeting, December, 1992. I quote from Turner's . . . unpublished text with his permission, and further page references will be documented in my text.

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