Paul Gilroy - blog tasks Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet 170: Gilroy – Ethnicity and Postcolonial Theory . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets or you can access it online here using your Greenford Google login. Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Gilroy argues that racial identities are socially and historically constructed. He believes that they are the result of racism, colonialism, slavery, and economic systems like consumer capitalism, rather than natural or biological differences. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Gilroy suggests that racism creates race, not the other way around. He argues that racism emerged from historical processes like colonialism and slavery, and race was used to justify the oppression and exploitation of...