Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Diaspora News > re- unthinking eurocentrism/oyiboism

not sure why you are posting this, monsieur ...
but this tenor of questioning hybridity, is valuable; yet at the same time it is stam who celebrates it in his brilliant essay on hybridity and trash, yes trash:

Stam, Robert. "Beyond Third Cinema: The Aesthetics of Hybridity." In Rethinking Third Cinema, eds. Anthony Guneratne and Wimal Dissanayake. London: Routledge, 2003. Print.

ken

On 8/21/13 8:17 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:

�The reversal of valence for what were once racist tropes (�syncretic,� for example, recalls Christian prejudice against African religions) and the reversal of purist notions of identity should not obscure the problematic agency o postcolonial hybridity�. A celebration of syncretism and hybridity per se, if not articulated with questions of historic hegemonies, risks sanctifying the fait accompli of colonial violence. For oppressed people, even artistic syncretism is not a game but a sublimated form of colonial pain, which is why Jimi Hendrix played the �Star Spangled Banner� in a dissonant mode, and why even a politically conservative performer like Ray Charles renders � America the Beautiful� as a moan and a cry. A descriptive catch-all term, �hybridity� fails to discriminate between the diverse modalities of hybridity: colonial imposition, obligatory assimilation, political cooptation, cultural mimicry, and so forth. Elites have always made cooptive top-down raids on subaltern cultures, while the dominated have always �signified� and parodied as well as emulated elite practice. Hybridity in other words, is power-laden and asymmetrical. Whereas historically assimilation by the �native� into a European culture was celebrated as part of the civilizing mission, assimilation in the opposite direction was derided as �going native", a reversion to savagery. Hybridity is also cooptable. In Latin America, national identity has often been officially articulated as hybrid and syncretic, through hypocritically integrationist ideologies that have glossed over subtle racial hegemonies.� (Page 42-43 of �Unthinking Eurocentrism�

Unthinking Eurocentrism

Unthinking eurocentrism multiculturalism and the media pdf

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