ABSTRACT
Neoliberalism is neither a linear nor a singular project. Neoliberalism spreads unevenly but is patterned by a meta history of elite white racism. One interesting side effect of racist neoliberal governance was the creation of a white-private market around poverty. The neoliberal project's relationship with racism and diversity changed as the criteria for inclusion and exclusion changed. Whites benefit from diversity in places outside the workplace. Whites who have increasingly sought out diversity do so to enhance their own experiences and identities. Rethinking diversity in the neoliberal era is not the same thing as reducing all social relations to race or social class or inserting race or social class as a foundation variable to build a theory of diversity. Based on the meta pattern of elite white power, the chapter presents some reasonable questions sociologists have to ask regarding future developments in racist neoliberal governance.
