Multicultural movements of the 1980s-90s grew partly from anti-apartheid struggles

Evidence

The anti-apartheid struggles, in turn, were linked complexly, as spark and as fuel, as cause and effect, as warrant and as content of multicultural mobilizations wherever those of European descent had ruled on the basis of their ethnoracial (self-)determination. Multicultural movements of the 1980s and 1990s accordingly are to be understood, at least, as the at once irreducible supplement to anti-apartheid antiracisms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 102

Notwithstanding, increasingly self-conscious multicultural social, cultural, and political movements are a relatively recent phenomenon, as noted. They take on a characteristic specificity in the context of local, national, and state conditions, globally influenced and textured. The racial dimensions of multicultural developments, themselves complex, may have been inherited in the 1970s and 1980s from anticolonial and civil rights reinventions, but such antiracist prompts were impassioned by re-viewing civil rights and anticolonial commitments in light of the anti-apartheid legacy of the 1980s. 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, 103

Categorization

• QUESTION: Would be worth checking whether the anti-apartheid framing of the 1980s acted as a surrogate vehicle for domestic urban multicultural claims, parallel to how college DEI frames operate today.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 102; David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 103
• XREF: connects to: Anti-apartheid struggles directly fueled Western multicultural movements — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 102; Anti-apartheid rhetoric channeled metropolitan antiracist energies — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 104; Twentieth-century antiracist struggles were cross-racial and genuinely global in scope — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 110

Broader Connections

• Anti-apartheid struggles directly fueled Western multicultural movements #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 102
• Anti-apartheid rhetoric channeled metropolitan antiracist energies #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 104
• Twentieth-century antiracist struggles were cross-racial and genuinely global in scope #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 110