Paul Gilroy Ain't No Black In The Union Jack
- There Ain t No Black in the Union Jack. Nobody post-Lenny, Lennox and Linford, Scarey, Denise and Naomi, could. Author: Paul Gilroy.
- A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in Britain. Still dynamite today and as relevant as ever, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author.
- The book ’There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack’: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, Paul Gilroy is published by University of Chicago Press.
- In 1987 Paul Gilroy released his controversial critique of British racial politics, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack. In it, he explored the role of racism across the political spectrum, left and right, as well as the relationship between racial and national identity.
Author | Paul Gilroy |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Racial politics in the United Kingdom |
Published | 1987 |
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Author of foundational and highly influential books such as There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), Against Race (2000), Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) and Darker Than Blue (2010) alongside numerous key articles, essays and critical interventions, Gilroy’s is a unique.
'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation is a 1987 non-fiction book written by Paul Gilroy.[1][2][3][4][5]
Overview[edit]
Gilroy examines the racial politics of the United Kingdom. In particular, he discusses racism in the United Kingdom. This work of Gilroy's remains quite controversial to many for his views on racial politics in the United Kingdom and for his views on race and ethnicity.[5]
References[edit]
- ^'There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack!, The University of Chicago Press.
- '^There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation at Google Books.
- ^Prescod, Colin (1 April 1988), 'Book reviews : 'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': the cultural politics of race and nation', Race and Class, Volume 29, issue 4, pp. 97–100.
- ^Lamont, Michèle, and Élot Laurent (5 June 2006), 'Opinion: Identity: France shows its true colors', The New York Times,
- ^ abCheyette, Bryan (11 December 1993). 'BOOK REVIEW / Still ain't no black in the Union Jack: 'The Black Atlantic''. The Independent. Retrieved 30 March 2017.