Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

by Paul Gilroy

Book Overview

After all the "progress" made since World War II in matters pertaining to race, why are we still conspiring to divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin color? 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, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He compels us to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006690
• ISBN13: 9780674006690
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"