The postcolonial condition begins with colonial contact and persists beyond formal decolonization

Evidence

First let us be clear that “postcolonial” does not mean “after colonialism.” The postcolonial is the discourse of the colonized. It begins when the colonizers arrive and doesn’t finish when they go home. In that sense, postcolonial analysis examines the full range of responses to colonialism, from absolute complicity to violent rebellion and all variations in between. All of these may exist in a single society, so the term “postcolonial society” does not mean an historical leftover of colonialism, but a society continuously responding in all its myriad ways to the experience of colonial contact. There is no monolithic “postcolonialism” except the one you don’t like; the one you need to invent if you want to attack the notion of postcoloniality. There are many ways of theorizing and analyzing the range of subject positions stimulated by the colonial experience, so there are many postcolonial responses and many postcolonialisms. But what characterizes most postcolonial points of view is a simple conviction of the continuing material and discursive impact of colonialism on the millions of lives it has affected. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3428 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

These historical examples are not irrelevant to how multiculturalism has surfaced in the postwar world. They provide some of the latter’s conditions of emergence. But there is no linear connection between the colonial and the postcolonial. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 313 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonialism’s legacies persist long after colonial rule ends. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 257; Nkrumah argued formal decolonization left colonial economic control intact — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 289; Late British colonial policy laid the groundwork for postcolonial authoritarian states — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 433 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The postcolonial begins with colonization, not after it ends #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3428
• Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past #complicates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 313