Colonial dislocation operates as alienation from family expectations and one’s own people.

Evidence

And when I say “dislocated,” I am talking about serious stuff. I am talking about never feeling at one with the expectations my family had for me, of the sort of person I should become, of what I should do with my life. And of dislocation from the people themselves—from the mass of the Jamaican people: not at home “in the castle of my skin.” Not being able to find myself “at home” in the context in which I was born, brought up, and lived. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1192

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies that colonial dislocation is double: distance from familial class expectations and from the mass of one’s own people.