Great migration - African American migration from the southern states...

Postmodernism

Relates to western thought; has three eras:

1. Pre modern:
• Before science came
• There were kings
• Church held roost
• Church issued bulls - Pope could issues - like fatwa
2. Modernity (of Europe, US, etc.)
• Challenge to church
• Role for science
• Separate role for religion
• Industry
• Technology starts
• Capitalism
• Free enterprise
• Material success
• Slavery & genocide, Colonial loot leading to wealth - Rockefeller, Phillip Morris, etc.
• Done brilliant things due to Science, industrialisation, etc.
3. Post modernity
• 20th century
• When they realised modernity produced some ugly things - communism, Nazism, etc.
• There is a crisis
• Is the latest fad
• It attacks modernity (attacks slavery, exclusivity)
• Attacked grand narratives of modernity
• Indians lack the context of our own culture and civilization, suffer from an inferiority complex, brought post-modernity into India, started "Deconstructing" and started the "Indian Grand Narrative".

• Modernism started with the industrial revolution. 
• Modernism saw attempts to explain society, human behavior, politics, sexuality with all-embracing theories called Grand Narratives.
• Modernism rejected culture and tradition.
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