Random notes - 2

Du Bois = Double consciousness -  an awareness of being both inside and outside the 'West'                                     -  a part of and not quite a part of. Adah - SCC - anger towards babysitter, aware of both sides.Magid - WT - sent to India, English educationIrie - WT - black and white, change appearance to join culture. Rant on the bus, reliant on history.Laughter can disrupt binary oppositions. Laughter - not a marker of otherness               - self consciously employed, strategically positioned               - relieve tension and aggression.                - can take many forms - subversive, wry smiles, black humour, wild and eerie laughter.McLeod = utopian visions, hybridised and multicultural London, creative figures, gold and grey                - affection/disenchantment, exuberance/despair

Gilroy = conviviality - alternative to hybridity - people l                   living side by side.            - black and white history is interconnected            - rejects terms such as creolisation, metissage,               mestizaje and hybridity - replaced with               stereophonic, bilingual, bifocal.            - rejects terms because they imply 'bad blood'.            - national boundaries are not very relevant for               black people.

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