SOCIOL 3P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homi K. Bhabha, Antonio Gramsci, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Columbus left spain and arrived in north america, but he originally wanted to go to china. Institutionalization of racism: if you were white you were dominant and privileged than any other races. There were no more territories to evade or expand so empires turned inwards against each other. Britain, ottoman and germany lost their colonies once decolonialization started. Indonesia, china, india, america, canada, russia are one of the biggest countries in the world. Post colonialist uses the perspectives of people who were actually colonized. The events of the past would always affect you. Aboriginals are the most affected group in canada who continue to suffer intragenerational trauma. Colonialization has never truly stopped, it just continued in various other ways. Most advanced countries are seen as developed because of the theft that happened when they took over the information and resources of the countries they colonized. Mother was of alsatian extraction: illegitimate daughter of a mixed race family.
