Gilroy There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack

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In 1987, the historian and academic Paul Gilroy published There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, a searching examination of racism and nationalism in the United Kingdom in the second half of. Paul Gilroy’s book There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation published in 1987 is now in its thirties. It is a book that is much more than a thesis, or an argument about the damaging mutual implication of racism and nationalism: it is a book that made and makes the world differently.

The Resource 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' : the cultural politics of race and nation, Paul Gilroy ; with a new foreword by Houston A. Baker, Jr

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Title: 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack'

Title remainder: the cultural politics of race and nation

Statement of responsibility: Paul Gilroy ; with a new foreword by Houston A. Baker, Jr

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Cataloging source: DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1956-

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Gilroy, Paul

Illustrations: illustrations

Index: index present

LC call number: DA125.N4

LC item number: G55 1991

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

Series statement: Black literature and culture

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Racism

Label: 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' : the cultural politics of race and nation, Paul Gilroy ; with a new foreword by Houston A. Baker, Jr

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index

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Control code: 24173790

Dimensions: 22 cm

Extent: 271 pages

Isbn: 9780226294278

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Label: 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' : the cultural politics of race and nation, Paul Gilroy ; with a new foreword by Houston A. Baker, Jr

Publication

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index

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Content category: text

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Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Control code: 24173790

Dimensions: 22 cm

Extent: 271 pages

Isbn: 9780226294278

Isbn Type: (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Lccn: 91027129

Media category: unmediated

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“It is possible and necessary to approach Britain's colonial history by more satisfactory methodological routes. Its racial subjects need a more complex genealogy than those debates allow. Industrial decline has been intertwined with technological change, with immigration and settlement, with ideological racism and spatial segregation along economic and cultural lines. We need to grasp how their coming together took place in a desperate setting which nonetheless allowed black communities over several generations to be recognised as political actors: they were irreducible to their class positions because racism entered into the multi-modal processes in which classes were being constituted. It helps to appreciate that this historical predicament was overdetermined by Britain's painful loss of Empire and, that the country's communities of the strange and alien are still sometimes at risk of being engulfed by the profound cultural and psychological consequences of decline which is evident on many levels: economic and material as well as cultural and psychological.”
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“Things had been different when Garveyism and Ethiopianism rather than afro-centrism and occultism set the tone. To contain modernity, to appreciate its colonial constitution and to criticise its reliance on racialised governmental codes all required finding an autonomous space outside it. A desire to exist elsewhere supplied the governing impulse. It was captured in compelling forms in the period's best songs of longing and flight, like Bunny Wailer's anthem ‘Dreamland’ 5. However, there is no longer any uncontaminated, pastoral or romantic location to which opposition and dissent might fly, and so, a new culture of consolation has been fashioned in which being against this tainted modernity has come to mean being before it. Comparable investments in the restorative power of the pseudo-archaic occur elsewhere. They help to make Harry Potter's world attractive and are routine features of much ‘new age’ thinking. They govern the quest for a repudiation of modernity that is shared by the various versions of Islam which have largely eclipsed Ethiopianism as the principal spiritual resource and wellspring of critique among young black Europeans. Their desire to find an exit from consumerism's triumphant phantasmagoria reveals them to be bereft, adrift without the guidance they would have absorbed, more indirectly than formally, from the national liberation movements of the cold war period and the struggles for both civil and human rights with which they were connected. Instead, an America-centred, consumer-oriented culture of blackness has become prominent. In this post-colonial setting, it conditions the dreams of many young Britons, irrespective of their ancestral origins or physical appearance. This brash and celebratory imperial formation is barely embarrassed by the geo-political fault-line that re-divides the world, opposing the overdeveloped north to the suffering south. That barrier provides the defining element in a new topography of global power which is making heavy demands upon the overwhelmingly national character of civil society and ideal of national citizenship. It is clear that the versions of black politics that belonged to the west/rest polarity will not adapt easily to this new configuration.”
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