Post colonial Psyc

Question 1

What is post-colonial?

Answer 1

• the historical period following European colonial expansion when former colonies gained political independence
• the relationship between coloniser and colonised

Question 2

Racial Objectification

Answer 2

• how the black man becomes an object

- race is the only thing about him (negative)

Question 3

Racial Alienation

Answer 3

• disconnect between internal world of individual and external social construct
• dehumanisation
• become estranged from yourself

Question 4

Internalisation

Answer 4

• process where external, socio-historical reality is assimilated into internal subjective reality
• internalisation leads to inferiority complex:
  1. Cultural Dispossession: take on coloniser’s culture and erase your own
  2. Lactification: whitening of the black subject.

Question 5

Double Consciousness

Answer 5

• 2 life changing moments for an African American
• 1. when they realise they are black
     
     2. when they realise being black is a problem
• looking at oneself through the eyes of others
• there is a twoness
• African heritage but American identity
• reconciled identity
• marginal groups in society are denied true self consciousness because the dominant culture devalues them and looks at their culture with contempt

Question 6

Black Consciousness

Answer 6

• Biko believed that oppression had destroyed black people’s imagination and had scarred their psyche- rehabilitation by practising positive thinking
• infuse black man with pride and dignity and remind themselves of being allowed to be misused.
• political: need to achieve mental emancipation before political emancipation
• psyc: black man needs to rally together
• a mutual knowledge of blackness

Question 7

Conscientisation

Answer 7

• key strategy of black consciousness
• political strategy of resistance
• develop a heightened awareness of oppressive political conditions
• protest talk: process of understanding oppression and finding realistic solutions to these causes

Question 8

Goal of Black Consciousness

Answer 8

• addressing cultural and historical alienation
• correct false images of themselves
• reinvent oneself
• build community solidarity: self reliance and personal and community relationships
• blackness as a unifying identity towards a movement away from despair and indifference to rational organised activity