The document discusses the concept of the "crisis of multiculturalism" which has been used to legitimize racism post-9/11. It argues that this crisis is actually a crisis of politics and the contemporary articulation of racism in a "postracial" age. The rhetoric around the crisis of multiculturalism is itself mired in culturalism, locating problems in the culture of the "other" and calling for more dominance of one's own culture. Both culturalization of politics and notions of culture are imbricated with concepts of race and used to discipline non-normative bodies.