JOUB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Identity Politics, New Social Movements, Afro-Caribbean
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In contrast today: was grim economically after colonialism. [not unlike the uk today, but with different communities] There"s 3rd gen young black men and women that they know they come from the. Caribbean, they know they are black and they know they are british and they want to speak from all 3 identities, and don"t want to give up on them. stuart hall. Etymologically derives from ancient greek hegemon meaning chieftain . The use of the concept of hegemony in social and political theory is relatively new and signifies the domination of a social class over others, which is exerted hegemony speaks to the cultural domination. Hall states that we have to think of identity as a multiplicity (contemporary multiplicity of) identity. National identities that emerged so forcefully in the 1800s are now just a point of reference for identity. Identity is not a stable thing, it is always a process of formation.
