Paul Gilroy: the man who rewrote the history of migration
Born in London’s East End in 1956, Gilroy graduated with a PhD from Birmingham University in 1986. One of the authors of modern counter-history, and remains one of the leading theorists of race and racism teaching in the world today, Gilroy has helped establish how central the persistence of an entrenched, racialised worldview affects how we interpret events we encounter in our daily lives. Gilroy has shaped and reshaped cultural studies, critical race studies, sociology, history, anthropology and African-American studies, including revolutionising the study of diaspora – the migration of people in different directions out from a single point of origin – in the humanities on its head.
A prominent and award-winning scholar, Gilroy rewrote the established narrative of global history, overturning romantic stories of witness, religion and the mythical ethnic homogeneity of Britain before the slave trade, challenged existing notions of trade, and breathed new life into the humanist tradition by involving philosophy, sociology, musicology, literature, history and critical theory into his study of the humanities and extending his arguments into scholarly and political discourses on race and anti-racism.
Read Gilroy in the University Library
After empire: melancholia or convivial culture? 306.0941 GIL
Between camps: nations, cultures and the allure of race 305.8 GIL
Conflicting humanities (edited by Paul Gilroy wtih Rosi Braidotti) – [ebook]
Postcolonial transitions in Europe: contexts, practices and politics 325.3094 PON – also available as an [ebook]
Problems in anti-racist strategy 305.80941 GIL
Small acts: thoughts on the politics of black cultures 305.896041 GIL
Staying power: the history of black people in Britain – [ebook]
The black Atlantic: modernity and double consciousness 305.896 GIL
There ain’t no black in the Union Jack 323.141 GIL – also available as an [ebook]
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