Colonialism which normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century, when people from Europe built colonies on other countries.
The reason for the practise of colonialism at that time included:
- the profit to be made
- to expand the power of the colonising country
- to escape persecution by the colonising country
- to convert the indigenous population to the colonist religion
- Political and legal domination over an alien society
- relations of economics and political dependence
- exploitation between imperial powers and the colony
- racial and cultural inequality
- India: ' The rape of India' 'Jewel of the Crown'
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- south Africa
- china
- Caribbean
- Australia
- new Zealand
Post Colonialism
- Post colonialism does not simply refers to the period after the colonial era. it can also been as continuation of colonialism , albeit through different or new relationship concerning power and the control/production of knowledge.
- Post colonialism may seek to challenge or undermine the 'western' way of ethnicity
- Often previously colonised place are homogenized in western discoid under an umbrella label such as 'the third world'
- post-colonialism recognize that these was, and still is, resistance to the west
Key Theories
Alvarado (1987)Four key themes in racial representations
- Excotic
- Dangerous
- Humorous
- Pitied
According to the black psychoanalyst and philosopher Frantz Fanon colonisation has had a huge psychological impact on both the colonisers and the colonised.
key Quote ' Black Skin White Mask' ( 1952)
For example : language, ' to speak means to assume a culture' - black Caribbean lost their nature language and to be successful needs to speak in 'educated
Typically Black stereotypes Can:
- Infantilize: such as the 'cute' children of the charity posters or the 'simple-mided'
- Premitiuize: the 'exotic and virile' tribal warriers
- DE civilize: The 'Gangsta' 'Pimp'
- essentialize: Identity - Chinese people looking alike.
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