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: * Why do we still divide
humanity into different identity groups based on skin colour? * Did
all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement and the
decolonization of the Third World have such little lasting effect?
Gilroy examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have
become pre-eminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and
especially in the 1980s with the rise of hip-hop and other
militancies. With this trend, he contends, much that was valuable
about black culture has been sacrificed in the service of corporate
interests and new forms of cultural expression tied to visual
technologies. He argues that the triumph of the image spells death
to politics and reduces people to mere symbols. At its heart,
Between Camps is a Utopian project calling for the renunciation of
race. Gilroy champions a new humanism, global and cosmopolitan, and
he offers a new political language and a new moral vision for what
was once called 'anti-racism'.
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