Deterritorialized positioning enables critique of internal community exclusions

Evidence

These différances are not without real effects. Unlike the classic representations of dancehall elsewhere, this film charts the struggles of three girls to become ragga dancehall DJs—thereby bringing the vexed issue of sexual politics in Jamaican popular culture dead center to the narrative, where other versions are still hiding it away behind a cultural nationalist screen. Isaac Julien’s documentary film The Darker Side of Black has three locations—Kingston, New York, and London. Perhaps it is this relative “freedom of place” that enables him to confront the deep homophobia common to the different variants of gangsta rap without collapsing into the degraded language of “the innate violence of the black posses” that now disfigures British Sunday journalism. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 846

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘freedom of place’ enabling confrontation of internal homophobia parallels how diaspora positionality lets colonized subjects critique their own communities — relevant to the construction of the Other in Islamophobia readings; also echoes the moral-panic material on Stephen Lawrence.