First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
LOCKED INTO RACIALIST THINKING
Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2000) (From the book jacket: "At its heart, Against Race is a utopian project calling for the renunciation of race. Gilroy Champions anew humanism, global and cosmopolitan, ad he offers anew political adjudge and a new moral vision for what was one called 'anti-racism'." Note: Since the publication of this book, America has elected a nonwhite as president,gone through the myth/self-deceit of believing itself to be post-racial, and re-emerged into the racially-divided, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, age of Trumpism.).