OSP: PAUL GILROY - POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND DIASPORIC IDENTITY
Paul Gilroy - blog tasks 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? - Racial identities are caused by historical conflicts that have brought different groups into opposition. After the Renaissance, lines of race were established as a useful way to legitimise oppression 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? - Around the world structures of political and social life have been constructed under race thinking. As Gilroy sees race as a result of racism, the fact that these aspects of society are based upon race thinking is problematic, and as such there is scope to evaluate the equality of representations and identities created in the media. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? - Ethnic absolutism is a line of thinking which sees humans are part of different ethnic compartments, with race as the basis of human differentiation. - Gilroy is opposed to ethnic absolutism as it is counter to his argument that racism