Paul Gilroy There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (Routledge Classics) by Paul Gilroy (2002-07-11). 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.

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The founding director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation, is Paul Gilroy who has been described as one of the foremost theorists of race and racism working and teaching in the world today. He is the author of several highly influential books There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), Against Race (2000), Postcolonial Melancholia (2005).
Gilroy’s is a unique voice that speaks to the centrality and tenacity of racialized thought and representational practices in the modern world. He has transformed thinking across disciplines, from Ethnic Studies, British and American Literature, African American Studies, Black British Studies, Trans-Atlantic History and Critical Race Theory to Post-Colonial theory. He has contributed to and shaped thinking on Afro-Modernity, aesthetic practices, diasporic poetics and practices, sound and image worlds.

Gilroy won the Holberg Prize in 2019. It is given to a person who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts, humanities, social science, the law or theology, he was described by the awarding committee as ‘one of the most challenging and inventive figures in contemporary scholarship’. He has transformed the canon of political and cultural history, making us aware of how the African diaspora – spurred into motion, largely, by racial slavery – was an extra-national, socio-political and cultural phenomenon which challenged essentialist conceptions of country, community and identity, and what is more, was constitutive of modernity. Gilroy was one of the founding figures of a remapped global history that embedded the movement of racialized subjects and traded goods into accounts of the world as we know it. His work on racism in modern Britain has consistently countered romantic narratives of whiteness, Christianity and ethnic homogeneity as uniquely constitutive of these islands and has written the long history of Black Britons into the cultural and social fabric of Britishness. Using philosophy, sociology, musicology, literature, history and critical theory, he has breathed new life into the humanist tradition, extending it to include scholarly and political discourses on race and anti-racist polemic.

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'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]}

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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]

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1. ^'There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack!, The University of Chicago Press.
2. '^There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation at Google Books.
3. ^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.
4. ^Lamont, Michèle, and Élot Laurent (5 June 2006), 'Opinion: Identity: France shows its true colors', The New York Times,
5. ^ ^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.

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