- COLONIALISM: practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country and then occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically.
- POST COLONIALISM: academic study of colonialism and imperialism
- DIASPORA: A large group of people with similar heritage or homeland that have spread around the world.
- BAME: used to refer to non-white communities in the UK ie, minority groups.
- DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS (GILROY): the internal conflict of a minority in society
- CULTURAL ABSOLUTISM / RACIAL ESSENTIALISM: The assumption that one persons cultural norms and values take more importance over others.
- CULTURAL SYNCRETISM: Different cultures merging and coming together to create something new in a positive way.
- ORIENTALISM (SAID): The way that the Middle East is viewed.
- APPROPRIATION: the adoption of elements from one culture by members of a different culture.
- CULTURAL HEGEMONY: domination maintained through ideological or cultural means
- THE PUBLIC SPHERE (HABERMAS): a realm of our social life in which a public opinion can be formed.
- THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING IN TERMS OF FAIR REPRESENTATION OF MINORITY GROUPS / INTERESTS: Public service broadcasting eg, the news, is often biased when representing minority groups which causes society to adopt stereotypes and misunderstandings of these groups as they are under-represented.
Postcolonialism is the study of colonialism and the human consequences it has caused today of the control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
Theorists
Syncretism, double consciousness (the idea that you can be black and british or black and American etc) & hybridisation – these words are mechanisms for understanding cross-cultural identities.
People who write about this are Paul Gilroy (a British black academic)
He talked about double consciousness which is a term that came from W. E. B. Dubois meaning being black and british. He also talk s about ‘the place of racism in contemporary political culture.’