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Zusatztext 'Paul Gilroy is one of the most incisive thinkers of his generation' - Brian Cheyette! The Independent'Its scope! its unfashionable commitment to 'planetary humanism'! and its moral seriousness all make [Between Camps] an unusual and valuable work of cultural politics' - Sukhdev Sandhu! The Observer'This fierce kick at complacency will give everyone a bruise to rub' - Iain Finlayson! The Times Informationen zum Autor Paul Gilroy is a leading figure in international cultural studies. He is Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Yale. Previously he was Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University. His book There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack is now a Routledge classic. Zusammenfassung In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy and champions a new humanism, a new political language and a new moral vision for what was once called 'anti-racism'. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION I RACIAL OBSERVANCE, NATIONALISM, AND HUMANISM 1 The Crisis of “Race” and Raciology 2 Modernity and Infra-humanity 3 Identity, Belonging, and the Critique of Pure Sameness II FASCISM, EMBODIMENT, AND REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM 4 Hitler Wore Khakis: Icons, Propaganda, and Aesthetic Politics 5 “After the Love Has Gone”: Biopolitics and the Decay of the Black Public Sphere 6 The Tyrannies of Unanimism III BLACK TO THE FUTURE 7 “All about the Benjamins”: Multicultural Blackness—Corporate, Commercial, and Oppositional 8 “Race,” Cosmopolitanism, and Catastrophe 9 “Third Stone from the Sun”: Planetary Humanism and Strategic Universalism
