Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

by Paul Gilroy

In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy and champions a new humanism, a new political language and a new moral vision for what was once called 'anti-racism'.

Genres: Race, Cultural Studies

413 pages, Paperback

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.