paul gilroy coined the word ‘racial otherness’ and how this racial otherness caused stigmatisation within the black community.

he also shifts his gaze upon the post british industialism as well as the ‘colonial melencholia’ as a result of englands decline within their global pressence this is a result of WWII

Gilroy’s study of ‘there is no black in the union jack’ where he discusses the post war wave of immigration also known as the wind rush generation this lead to a series of anxiety’s and the rising suspicion that England will be ‘swamped ‘ and that there is no longer a ‘white Brittan’ the rise of these suspicions lead to subjugation upon the black community and the rise of riots and inequality and the rise of neo’ Nazis’ and ‘paki bashers’ the cause of all the turmoil started with the colonial melancholia where people chose to rise against the immigrants taking ‘white British jobs’ and the rise of steady unemployment surfaced the riots and the band the specials created a vision of multiculturalism where they took reggae with pop and turned it into something new called ska a new music of cultural reggae and a mixture of pop creating a unity of the races.