Hybridity is a cross between two separate races, plants or cultures. A hybrid is something that is mixed, and hybridity is simply mixture. Hybridity is not a new cultural or historical phenomenon.

What is the meaning of the hybridity?

The term hybridity has been used to describe a condition in which these boundaries of identity are crossed, resulting in illegitimate racial mixing. ... The purity and fixity of a 'white' identity has been maintained by labelling those mixed 'others' as both racially and culturally impure.

What is hybridity theory?

One of the most widely employed and most disputed terms in postcolonial theory, hybridity commonly refers to the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonization. ... Hybridity has frequently been used in post-colonial discourse to mean simply cross-cultural 'exchange'.