Anti-apartheid rhetoric channeled metropolitan antiracist energies

Evidence

Anti-apartheid, then, became the latest way of speaking back, attempting to prise loose the grip of racial effects as much in the form of a dynamic and vibrant multiculturalism on the postcolonial metropoles and its satellites as on apartheid South Africa. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 104

Categorization

• XREF: The theme of a distant, salient injustice serving as a proxy arena for domestic grievances connects to how college DEI programming handles antisemitism and Islamophobia symmetrically while omitting context — displacement of local tension onto a remote symbolic referent. — connects to: Multicultural movements of the 1980s-90s grew partly from anti-apartheid struggles — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 102; Racial separatism on the left reproduced apartheid’s political logic — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 582; Postwar racial nationalist movements linked local resistance to global antiimperialism (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-apartheid linked antiracist struggle to democratic definition worldwide #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 100
• Racial separatism on the left reproduced apartheid’s political logic #contradicts (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 582
• Postwar racial nationalist movements linked local resistance to global antiimperialism #expands (0.72)