Racializing culture is ordinary

This article engages a discussion of Raymond Williams claim that culture is ordinary to explore some of the ways in which racializing culture is embedded in everyday interactions and processes of identification that found subjectivity. It argues that there is a pressing need for social policy analysts to come to grips with the mechanisms through which 'culture' comes to be racialized and an object/subject of governance and suggests that current, high-profile articulations of the 'problems' of multiculturalism, profoundly hinder such a development.