Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism examines the impact of the economic, cultural, and political colonization of Asia, Africa, and the Americas by the United States and the countries of Europe. Major concerns in postcolonial studies include 1) how the native populations were destroyed, oppressed, or otherwise transformed by the process of colonization itself; 2) how those populations struggled to achieve freedom from the colonial forces (hence, "post"colonialism); and 3) how the effects of colonialism continue to be felt in both the colonized and colonizing nations.