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Paul Gilroy

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Paul Gilroy

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Scholar of the Black diaspora and culture

Person · Open Library

Works
40

Top works

  • After Empire
  • Programme of Absolute Disorder
  • Without guarantees
  • Isaac Julien: Riot
  • The Senses and Society Volume 4 Issue 3

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Quotes

  • Today, people don’t talk about black people eating Kit-e-Kat.
  • Appropriation is the fundamental law of culture. I don’t feel threatened by the idea that people think I’m wrong or that they think they can do better. Let’s see if they can!
  • We have to offer people a different way of looking at things that isn’t just a critique. The critique is fine as far as it goes, but people need help. They need a hand and we have to be imaginative enough to be able to speak to that need.
  • Most people are having their racial and ethnic differences given back to them by their national or ethnic leaders as a way of controlling them and channelling their hopes - their dreams and their aspirations - towards goals that are defined by an indifferent and self-serving oligarchy. People are anxious. They feel that they need something else apart from these sham certainties. That’s certainly what I hope.

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