| Description |
xvi, 170 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Wellek library lectures |
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Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine.
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| Contents |
Introduction : on living with difference -- 1. Race and the right to be human -- 2. Cosmopolitanism contested -- 3. "Has it come to this?" -- 4. The negative dialectics of conviviality |
| Summary |
"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 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 the "clean edifice of white supremacy." In Postcolonial Melancholia, he continues the conversation he began in the landmark study of race and nation 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack' by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine - and defend - multiculturalism within the context of the post-9/11 "politics of security.""--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cultural pluralism -- Great Britain.
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Race discrimination -- Great Britain.
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Minorities -- Great Britain.
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National characteristics, British.
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| LC no. |
2004052692 |
| ISBN |
0231134541 cloth alkaline paper |
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