Ethnically diverse urban contact long predates modern multicultural movements

Evidence

This is not to say that what others such as Peter Caws and Stuart Hall have characterized as the “descriptive multicultural” or modern demographic diversity doesn’t have a much longer history in western metropoles such as London and Amsterdam, Paris and New York, but notably also in colonial capitals in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas, dating back at least to the early onset of European modernities. These urban environments attracted and threw together in more or less vigorous interaction and cultural clash people from across broad swaths of the world in trade and social interaction, political tension and intimate intercourse, intellectual engagement and epistemological distinction, linguistic multiplicity and cultural translation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 102

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Multicultural diversity in western cities predates the 1980s by centuries — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 102; Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 229; Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Multicultural diversity in western cities predates the 1980s by centuries #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 102
• Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep #corroborates (0.90) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 229
• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily #corroborates (0.85)
• Black and Asian presence in Britain predates postwar migration by centuries #corroborates (0.85)