Strategic essentialism is a major concept in postcolonial theory that was introduced in the 1980s by Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It refers to a political tactic in which minority groups, or ethnic groups mobilize on the basis of shared identity attributes to represent themselves.
Strategic essentialism is a major concept in postcolonial theory that was introduced in the 1980s by Indian literary critic and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. It refers to a political tactic in which minority groups, or ethnic groups mobilize on the basis of shared identity attributes to represent themselves.
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