Postcolonial categories like hybridity apply to all social organization

Evidence

The examination of the nature of postcolonial society is perhaps most interesting because it uncovers elements which then redefine or reappraise all social organization. Hybridity, marginality, the rhizomic operation of imperial power and its contestation, are all principles which apply more widely than the postcolonial. But most importantly it is an examination which releases the subject from the essentialist and identarian. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3442

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the analytical payoff of postcolonial theory: hybridity, marginality, and rhizomic power as principles generalizing beyond the postcolonial context.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”