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Paul Gilroy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics and is the author of The Black Atlantic and Against Race (both from Harvard).
Image credit: Paul Gilroy at home in 2019. via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Obras por Paul Gilroy

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Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue (2017) — Prefácio, algumas edições14 exemplares

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Only got 40 or so pages in.

Interesting stuff, maybe, but far too academic and long-winded for me.
 
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steve02476 | 1 outra crítica | Jan 3, 2023 |
Surely the worst book ever written about a great idea. The chapter on Wright was pretty good, the chapter on Dubois and 'Hegel' possibly the worst I've ever read, mainly because Gilroy seems to have followed the Althusser approach to analysis of philosophical argument, that is, not reading the book (Hegel's Phenomenology) he's talking about. Vastly influential, unreadable and unconvincing- but that central idea was a great one.
 
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stillatim | Dec 29, 2013 |
Far too much impenetrable socioese for me to have been able to make much headway with this. Why can't sociologists write to communicate, not to show how much jargon they can parade?

What promised to be a good book, spoiled by fashionableness.
 
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KayDekker | Mar 6, 2009 |
Gilroy examines race and multiculturalism through the prism of a range of modern theories including Freud, DuBois, Orwell, and Fanon.
 
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Fledgist | May 19, 2008 |

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Obras
20
Also by
4
Membros
1,219
Popularidade
#21,068
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
5
ISBN
55
Línguas
7

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