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? 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. Aren't we in fact using the same devices the Nazis used in
their movies and advertisements when we make spectacles of our
identities and differences? preeminent 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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