Strategic essentialism
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Strategic essentialism
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Strategic essentialism, a major concept in postcolonial theory, was introduced in the 1980s by the 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. These identity attributes commonly include: While strong differences may exist between members of these groups, and amongst themselves, they engage in continuous debates. Proponents of
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