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[beccaelizabeth]

So I started reading the 90s cinema book with the bit that mentions one of the texts we're studying. Black British Cinema. It says "These films challenged what British film-making is all about; they were made by young black Britons who despite being British were rooted in another culture, be it African, Caribbean, Pakistani or Indian."

So they're using Black in a different way than I do, or than I'm used to. In my head Indian & Pakistani is Asian, not black. Black is for African and Caribbean. And it's still a sort of splodgy hides a lot word then.

So has useage moved on, or am I just wrong?

I can see how all the groups listed have a whole racism and postcolonialism theme going on, but they don't seem same sort to me.

It's like in the other book, Mediations, where some guy was saying that people came over here with identities based on which island they were from, but by being interpellated, hailed, under the label 'black' then all those different groups sort of started to see themselves as one group. The group as gets called black, all one group. But that seems like throwing out precision for appearance labeling to me. Except for if there's a group identity then there's room to make group actions, like complaining about racism or something. I don't know.

All the complicated lives in the little words. This too is a theme of cultural studies.