Paul Gilroy

 Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or you can access it online here using your Greenford Google login.


Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks:

1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed?
Historically constructed formed by colonization.

2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism?
Racial differences and racial identities are the product of racial oppression.
Racism causes race.

3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it?
A line of thinking which sees humans as apart of different ethnic compartments, with race as the basis of human differentiation. 
He opposes it as it is a counter to his argument that racism causes race.

4) How does Gilroy view diasporic identity?
Diasporas are considered to comprise of members of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious groups who live in countries to which their ancestors migrated. 

5) What did Gilroy suggest was the dominant representation of black Britons in the 1980s (when the Voice newspaper was first launched)?
External and estranged from the imagined community that is the nation.

6) Gilroy argues diaspora challenges national ideologies. What are some of the negative effects of this?
They become trapped in a national ideology.

7) Complete the first activity on page 3: How might diasporic communities use the media to stay connected to their cultural identity? E.g. digital media - offer specific examples.
Only interacting with things they identify with which would be within their culture.

8) Why does Gilroy suggest slavery is important in diasporic identity?
It can not be reversed.

9) How might representations in the media reinforce the idea of ‘double consciousness’ for black people in the UK or US?
Representing them through the eyes of another rather than a black person.


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