Deconstructing the Diversity Discourse:Toward a Unifying Analogue of Social Justice

There is a need to deconstruct the vocabularies of diversity discourse beyond the divisive rhetoric of acquisitive resentment and redemptive acceptance. A transcendental approach is crucial to achieving a civil culture lost in the mist of new tribalism. This presentation emphasizes the ethics of humanity above and beyond the politics of race, gender and class. While a historico-axiological rationale for the Black-specific policies appears justifiable, a transcendentally civil perspective humane and secular—is called for to address the challenges of diversity in the 21st Century1.