post colonialism

• cultural imperialism


  The dominance of one culture over another.
• Multiculturalism


  A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions
• Imagined Communities


  Anderson indicates how nationalism and nations are based on a shared sense of community between people who do not all know each other, however, feel close and share ideational factors with other people in the nation.
• Marginalisation


  The social process of becoming or being isolated and left out
• Orientalism

  the representation of Asia, especially the Middle East, in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude.

  prejudiced western view of other cultures
• Otherness (Alterity)


  cultural groups that are different from our own
• Diaspora (Gilroy)


  • A dispersion of people from their homeland
  • the catering or spread of people as part of the colonial and historical events (the Atlantic slave trade)
  • Gilroy believed the despicable slave trade created an African diaspora.
  • Their old identities and traditions were replaced by oppression
  • therefore, began creating their own identity (black atlantic identity)
• du bois - double consciousness

  • describes the feeling that you have more than one social identity, which makes it difficult to develop a sense of self.
  • where an oppressed group thinks of themselves through the eyes of their oppressor
• Gilroy postcolonialism theory

  • Diaspora
  • Double Consciousness
  • black Atlantic culture
• black atlantic culture


  argues that the huge movement of people backwards and forwards across the ocean has created a dynamic intercultural identity that is beyond the scope of national borders and ethnic classifications.
• Gilroy - racist stereotypes


  Gilroy also proposed that racial identities and stereotypes were the product of racism.

  e.g European slave traders often referred to black people as savages

  still seen in the media however becoming more progressive
• du bois - the talented tenth 


  refers to the one in ten Black men that have cultivated the ability to become leaders of the Black community by acquiring a college education, writing books, and becoming directly involved in social change.
• ethnocentrism

  • seeing an issue from the perspective of your own cultural heritage - usually referring to white European perspective
  • e.g Judging others based on their language (often assuming English is, or should be, the default).