Paul Gilroy - blog tasks
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? His work encompasses postcolonial studies, and a consideration of cultural and race identities. Gilroy has published work on a range of subjects, including literature, art, social theory and music. He has consistently argued that racial identities are historically constructed – formed by colonialization, 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Racial identities are caused by historical conflicts that have brought different groups into opposition. That is not to say that there were n...
