Colonial identity functions as a style shaping reality language and thought

Evidence

However, it would be wrong to see these trends as singular or unambiguous. In the diaspora situation, identities become multiple. Alongside an associative connection with a particular island “home” there are other centripetal forces: there is the West-Indianness that they share with other West Indian migrants. (George Lamming once remarked that his—and, incidentally, my—generation became “West Indian” not in the Caribbean but in London!) There are the similarities with other so-called ethnic minority populations, emergent “black British” identities, the identification with the localities of settlement, also the symbolic reidentifications with “African” and more recently with “African American” cultures—all jostling for place alongside, say, their “Barbadianness.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 819 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Traveler-scientists’ impersonality masked their service to colonial ambition; Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 819; European identity formed through internal cohesion paired with contrast to other worlds (+7 more)

Related

• Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated (similarity 0.91)
• Diasporic life is a novel cultural configuration, not a transition toward assimilation (similarity 0.88)
• Diaspora is quietly subverting the nation-state model of identity (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial subjects discovered their collective identity only in the imperial center. (similarity 0.85)
• Migration makes the diasporic experience the paradigmatic late-modern condition (similarity 0.83)
• Bakhtin’s heteroglossia and multiaccentuality describe diaspora’s double textuality (similarity 0.83)
• Hybridity is cultural combination free of racial referents (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial histories are internal to the identity of the colonizer nation (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural identity is a forward-directed production, not a recovery of origins (similarity 0.82)
• Diasporic identities are revised and transformed, not fixed in Tradition (similarity 0.81)
• Individual identity is stabilized only within collective cultural networks (similarity 0.81)
• Diaspora offers a modern cultural path distinct from European internationalism (similarity 0.81)
• Caribbean regional identity was forged in London’s diaspora, not at home (similarity 0.80)
• Diasporic identity is formed by routes as much as by roots (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial displacement severs the naturalistic link between birthplace and cultural identity. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• European identity formed through internal cohesion paired with contrast to other worlds #expands (0.85)
• Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 819