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? He says how racial identities are historically constructed, this is through colonialization, slavery, nationalist philosophies and consumer capitalism. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? He suggests how rasism isn't caused by race but that racism causes race. He states that is a natural phenomenon and that racial difference and identity are the product of racial oppression. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? It is a line of thinking which sees humans are part of different ethnic compartments, with race a...