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As such the book represents a bold attempt to move away from the limitations of "race thinking" and towards embracing a more utopian and humanistic approach to understanding the world around us. To illustrate his case he draws on a wide range of references from Bob Marley to Primo Levi and from the liberation of the concentration camps to love affairs on the Star Ship Enterprise.
But while his reference points are accessible his writing style is not. This book is not for the faint-hearted or those with a casual interest in issues relating to race. Gilroy, a professor of African-American studies and sociology at Yale in America, delivers the dense prose of an academic treatise rather than a popular polemic.
But for those willing to persevere the content is worth it. Gilroy uses every intellectual weapon at his disposal, from developments in bio-genetics to the mythology surrounding black people and sport, to decouple "race-thinking" as an adequate response to the problems of our age and adopt, instead, a moral vision of "planetary humanism".--Gary Younge
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Drawing from a very wide range of sources including Immanuel Kant, and Leni Riefenstahl; Leopold Senghor and Frantz Fanon; Primo Levi; Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur and Disney, Between Camps offers us 'a new political language and a new moral vision towards the creation of a future involving truly planetary humanism and to claim the promise of this shared future beyond the colour Line.' For chapters see image of Contents Page. Black cloth boards with gilt (gold) titles along the spine, dust jacket with cover painting by Jim Stoddart (some edgewear). Slight spotting on top edge of book block. Tight binding. Typographically elegant. pp. 406/8vo. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request an additional payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2325. Seller Inventory # ABE-1688130988826
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 406 pages, index, NOT ex-library. Previous owner's name in pen and an address/name stamp in outer corners of front endpaper. Pages are clean, untanned, with unmarked text. Firm secure binding. A small indentation at the top edge of the front board. In a bright untorn dust jacket. -- This text explores issues of race, ethnicity and identity in the multicultural and "post-modern" world, both in conventional political terms and as expressed in popular culture. Contents: I. Racial Observance, Nationalism, and Humanism. The Crisis of "Race" and Raciology; Modernity and Infrahumanity; Identity, Belonging, and the Critique of Pure Sameness II. Fascism, Embodiment, and Revolutionary Conservatism. Hitler Wore Khakis: Icons, Propaganda, and Aesthetic Politics; "After the Love Has Gone": Biopolitics and the Decay of the Black Public Sphere; The Tyrannies of Unanimism III. Black to the Future. "All About the Benjamins": Multicultural Blackness - Corporate, Commercial, and Oppositional; "Race," Cosmopolitanism, and Catastrophe; "Third Stone From the Sun": Planetary Humanism and Strategic Universalism. Seller Inventory # 008609
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Book Description H/c. Condition: Very Good. First Editon. pages 406, this book is an exhilarating vision of the future of humanity. In this lucid and challenging work, the author's incisive understanding of history and refreshingly accurate grasp of the power and influence of technology, global commercialism and contemporary urban culture, point to a revolutionary new way of thinking about what used to be called anti-racism. Seller Inventory # 004181