A diasporic viewpoint structures how Europe is seen from outside

Evidence

Although a lot of the content of James’s writings was alien, he clearly had much to offer—insofar as they were both engaged in the construction of a perspective on how Europe looks if you come from the other side of the Atlantic. Henry James too had developed a diasporic way of seeing the world, and one that fit well with C. L. R. James’s comments on the particular significance of the insights of people who are “in but not of” Europe. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 901

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘in but not of’ Europe perspective as a lens for racialized seeing — a usable toolkit concept.
• XREF: Directly bridges to the ‘double consciousness’/outsider-within theme that scaffolds Islamophobia’s construction of the Other.