The Gilroy: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Black Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Gilroy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226294277 ISBN 13: 9780226294278

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

Gilroy demonstrates the enormous complexity of racial politics in England today. Exploring the relationships among race, class, and nation as they have evolved over the past twenty years, he highlights racist attitudes that transcend the left-right political divide. He challenges current sociological approaches to racism as well as the ethnocentric bias of British cultural studies.

"Gilroy demonstrates effectively that cultural traditions are not static, but develop, grow and indeed mutate, as they influence and are influenced by the other changing traditions around them."--David Edgar, "Listener Review of Books."

"A fascinating analysis of the discourses that have accompanied black settlement in Britain. . . . An important addition to the stock of critical works on race and culture."--David Okuefuna, "Chicago Tribune"

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Gilroy is at the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

Houston A. Baker, Jr. (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles), Editor, "The Black Arts Era." George D. and Susan Fox Beischer Professor of English, Duke University. Editor of American Literature; Editor of the anthology Black Literature in America and author of three books of poetry. Other works include Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and The Black Aesthetic; Workings of the Spirit: A Poetics of Afro-American Women s Writing; Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy; Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory; Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

From the Back Cover:

In this book, the author demonstrates the enormous complexity of racial politics in England today. Exploring the relationships among race, class, and nation as they have evolved over the past twenty years, he highlights racist attitudes that transcend the left-right political divide.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0226294277
• ISBN 13: 9780226294278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280