Colonized Consciousness and Othering

http://iolsresearch.ukzn.ac.za/Wewantwewantwewant12975.aspx

The above link is Faith ka-manzi's latest poem, featured at the IOLS newsletter for Feb (released today).. It is an example of political transcript manifested in art. (agency and social consciousness)

In your readings, Barker asks questions about the denigration and subordination of ‘native’ culture by colonial and imperial powers and the relationship between place and diaspora identities.

The concept of diaspora helps us think of identities as fluid, and in motion rather than confined to nature or cultural specifics.

The question of hybridity points to the cultures of the colonial and colonized are inseparable and eventually give rise to a hybrid culture.

So the question that we should ask is: is culture pure? Can culture ever be presented as pure? And also, can language, and dominant practices been seen as pure?

Also, What do we understand by local knowledge systems?

Central to the debate of power and hegemony from the dominant mode/colonizer is the notion of race and ethnicity. So then, ‘othering’ refers to a politics of difference to be found in the postcolonial conceptualizations of social reality.

Discuss some examples of 'othering' as understood by you.
And also.. What is Patriarchy?
What is a colonized consciousness?