Postcolonial Melancholia

by Paul Gilroy

Book Overview

In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses of race, politics, and culture have always remained attentive to the material conditions of black people and the ways in which blacks have defaced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023113455X
• ISBN13: 9780231134552
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher