# Strategic essentialism

> major concept in postcolonial theory, was introduced in the 1980s by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, refers to a political tactic in which minority groups, or ethnic groups mobilize on the basis of shared identity attributes to represent themselves

**Wikidata**: [Q3557257](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3557257)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_essentialism)  
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## References

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