Gilroy- theories about ethnicity and post-colonialism OCR definition: - The African diaspora caused by the slave trade has now constructed a transatlantic culture that is simultaneously African, American, Caribbean and British – the ‘Black Atlantic’. - Britain has failed to mourn its loss of empire, creating ‘postcolonial melancholia’, an attachment to an airbrushed version of British colonial history, which expresses itself in criminalising immigrants and an ‘us and them’ approach to the world founded on the belief in the inherent superiority of white western civilisation . Context: During 1500’s to the 1900’s there was a period of colonialism: Colonialism - taking over another country to run and exploit it - Britain did this a lot of countries such as India, Caribbean , and parts of Africa by sailing and installing their own military , soldiers and government to act as though they owned that country, leading the people to obey the B ritish. This was done in a
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