Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past

Evidence

These historical examples are not irrelevant to how multiculturalism has surfaced in the postwar world. They provide some of the latter’s conditions of emergence. But there is no linear connection between the colonial and the postcolonial. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 313

Categorization

• XREF: Discontinuity thesis — echoes Foucault’s genealogy over linear history, part of the theory toolkit for how the Islamophobia field treats the colonial-modern relation. — connects to: Racism, not migrancy, should frame European postcolonial settlement history — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 29; Progressive multiculturalism does not aim to replace one canon with another; Multiculturalism dates to the 1960s and remains unfinished — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 868 (+1 more)