Between Camps: Race, Identity and Nationalism at the End of the Colour Line

by Paul Gilroy

This text explores issues of race, ethnicity and identity in the multicultural and "post-modern" world, both in conventional political terms and as expressed in popular culture.

Genres: Race, Cultural Studies

406 pages, Hardcover

First published March 19, 2001

About the author

Paul Gilroy is an English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is Professor of the Humanities and the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College, London.

Reviews

[Malcolm · Rating 4 out of 5]

We so often today accept that race isn't real, that it has no basis in biology – yet it remains a powerful way of organising our understandings of the world. Gilroy argues that both race and nation are alluring ideas that we have not left behind us, and that their tendency to purity is a major part of the problem, along with the commodification of blackness. He has given us a politically charged, culturally engaged analysis of what the world could look like.