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How diversity celebrations mask ongoing exclusion

My city celebrates its multicultural diversity but all the cultural festivals are in wealthy neighborhoods while poor immigrant communities get policed.

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What we've seen

Public celebrations of inclusion can obscure continued patterns of marginalization and surveillance.

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