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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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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Paul
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Bethnal Green
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Stuart Hall
Doctoral student
Richard Seymour
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date of birth
1956-00-00
Commons category
Paul Gilroy
name in native language
Paul Gilroy
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