Against Race Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Name: Against Race Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line
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ISBN: 9780674006690

ISBN-10: 0674006690

ISBN-13: 9780674006690

Edition: 2000

Authors: Paul Gilroy

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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? In this provocative book Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He compels us to see that fascism was the principal political innovation of the twentieth century--and that its power to seduce did not die in a bunker in Berlin. Aren't we in fact using the same devices the Nazis used in their movies and advertisements when we make…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Paul Gilroy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics.



Introduction



Racial Observance, Nationalism, and Humanism



The Crisis of "Race" and Raciology



Modernity and Infrahumanity



Identity, Belonging, and the Critique of Pure Sameness



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



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


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index