Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

Gilroy, Paul

ISBN 10: 067400096X / ISBN 13: 9780674000964

Published by Belknap Press, 2000

Seller Inventory # 067400096X-4-32357937

Synopsis:

After all the progress made since World War II in matters pertaining to race, why are we still conspiring to divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin color? Did all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement and the decolonization of the Third World have such little lasting effect?

Review: Guides readers through the complex, interwoven incarnations of race-thinking from inception in the modern period through overt climax in the Colonial Era and the rise of Nazism in Europe to a lingering presence in today's vernacular cultures and ever more globalized corporate consumer landscape...[Gilroy] clearly outlines the complex connections between "race" and "place" in the development of Colonial Era nation-state identities and the systematic fascism that followed...Gilroy provides useful, historically fascinating accounts of black experiences in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century...Anyone interested in the history of racial politics and, in particular, the history of fascism will benefit from...the perspectives Gilroy derives from the voices of the Atlantic diaspora. Gilroy's examples are wide-ranging; he clearly is as comfortable discussing Nazi racial hygiene theories as he is discussing current genetic research, and is as fluent in critiquing jazz scholars

Bibliographic Details

Title: Against Race: Imagining Political Culture ...
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fair