424 Pages
by
Routledge
424 Pages
by
Routledge
In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, 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.
Between Camps addresses questions such as:
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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
Biography
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.
'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
