 It is the second stage in the history of hybridity, characterized by literature and theory that study the effects of mixture (hybridity) upon identity and culture.The principal theorists of hybridity are Homi Bhabha, Néstor García Canclini, Stuart Hall, Gayatri Spivak, and Paul Gilroy, whose works respond to the multi-cultural awareness that emerged in the early 1990s.In the theoretic development of hybridity, the key text is "The Location of Culture" (1994), by Homi Bhabha, wherein the liminality of hybridity is presented as a paradigm of colonial anxiety.