Resumen de Transculturalism and the 2021 Report of the UK Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
Taken as a process of cultural melting and mediation “whereby cultural forms literally move through time and space where they interact with other cultural forms and settings, influence each other, produce new forms, and change the cultural settings” (Lull 2000, 242), transculturalism has come to be seen as a fundamental feature of contemporary British society.
Focusing on the release of the British Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ Report on March 31, 2021, this overall cultural studies-oriented paper broadly draws upon critical discourse analysis (CDA) to undertake a preliminary study attempting to determine to what extent transculturalism is considered in the Report. The examination of the document, as well as the controversial political and media reactions in various contexts after its publication, leads to a discussion of results stressing the existence of ‘competing discourses’ evincing underlying tensions concerning ideologically-based conceptions of multiculturalism in recent British politics.
