Gilroy - Ethnicity And Postcolonial Theory Flashcards
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What is Gilroy’s Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory?
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The idea that civilizationism constructs racial hierarchies and sets up binary oppositions based on notions of otherness.
(Example: Whitewashing a black woman on the cover of a magazine, dehumanising those of another race on a newspaper cover).
