Gilroy There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack
'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. PAUL GILROY is one of the most incisive thinkers of his generation. He is best known for There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (1987), a controversial exploration of anti-black racism in Britain.
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- 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' : the cultural politics of race and nation
It also relates to the title of British historian Paul Gilroy’s book, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987). Like these, Union Black references and deconstructs ideas about collective memory, boundaries and the meaning of allegiance to a nation. Curator Okwui Enwezor has written of Ofili’s red, black and green works. Gilroy criticizes the idea of an English patriotism of the Left fostered by Tony Benn, Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. “There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack” is implicitly also a contribution to the debate about the peculiarities of the development and the weakness of Marxist tradition in England. 'there Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation by Gilroy, Paul. Trade Paperback available at Half Price Books® https://www.hpb.com.
- 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
- Creator
- Subject
- Language
- eng
- Member of
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- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
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- 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
- Blacks
- Blacks
- Great Britain
- Racism
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- '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
- Instantiates
- Publication
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index
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- volume
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- Control code
- 24173790
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226294278
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- (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 91027129
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- Other physical details
- illustrations
- 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
- Carrier category
- volume
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
Gilroy There Ain't No Black In The Union Jackhe Union Jack
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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
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Library Locations
- 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO, 65201, US
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Paul Gilroy is one of the foremost theorists of race and racism working and teaching in the world today. Author of foundational and highly influential books such as There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), Against Race (2000), Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) and Darker Than Blue (2010) alongside numerous key articles, essays and critical interventions, 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.
Winner of the Holberg Prize (2019), which is given to a person who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts, humanities, social science, the law or theology, Professor Gilroy 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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