rticular place and time, from a history and a culture that is specific to us, in other words from a 'position of enunciation'. The 'black experience' which Hall refers to as a commonly shared history and ideology, pendant on colour, is in reality something which relies heavily on individual experience, and each experience in this case is context positioned. For example, the black experience of a Jamaican and an African living in Britain will be different even though they are both black.

Hall talks about the synthesis of cultures, of having an original culture that is dominated by a colonising culture and the result being an integration of the two into something completely new. This 'mixture' or 'hybridity' is the essence of what makes Jamaica what it is today. Peo

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