Paul Gilroy - blog work
Paul Gilroy - blog task 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 Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Gilroys believes that racial identity is constructed because of history e.g. slavery 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Gilroy suggests that racism is not caused by race but racism causes race and that racial identity are caused by conflicts in history which therefore bought different groups into opposing other groups. 3) What is ethnic absolutism and why is Gilroy opposed to it? It is the line of thinking that sees people as part of different ethnic groups, with ethnicity on the basis of distinction between individuals. He is opposed to racial absolutism because it...